The Nativity – III. [With Joshua Podro.] Literary Guide 70: 17–21, January. [Material from A69.]

The White Horse. Punch 228: 95–97, 12 January.V. ‘ ‘The White Horse, or The Great Southern Ghost Story.’

Malory’s Arthur. New Statesman 49: 107, 22 January. [Letter in reply to Hugh Vaudrey, 49: 45, 8 January, which is a reply to C467.]

The Lawrence I Knew. News Chronicle, 31 January, p.4. [Review of Richard Aldington’s Lawrence of Arabia.]

Epics are out of Fashion. Punch 228: 234–236, 16 February. [There was a translation into Spanish as ‘Los Poemas Épicos No Estan de Moda’. Barcarola, Número 42-43, Julio 1993, pp. 153-156. Translation by Modesto Pozo Lárez.]

Earth to Earth. New Statesman 49: 240–241, 19 February. [Earth to Earth was reprinted in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 4, Whole No. 149, April 1956, pp. 61-64, under the title The Steinpiltz Method. This story was reprinted in: Duthie, Eric, Editor. Tall Stories. London: Faber and Faber, [1959], pp. 181-185; Duthie, Eric, Editor. Tall Short Stories. New York: Ace Books, [1959], pp. 160-164; Town, Volume 5, Number 8, August 1964, pp. 41-42; Llorens, José A., Editor. Antología de las Mejores Novelas Policíacas. Barcelona: Ediciones Acervo, [1965], pp. [87] 88-92, in Spanish translation under the title Un Abono Excelente; Allen, M. C., Editor. Shock! New York: Popular Library, [1965], pp. 48-53; Davenport, Basil, Editor. 13 Ways to Dispose of a Body. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1966], pp. 84-90; Queen, Ellery (pseudonym), Editor. Ellery Queen’s Poetic Justice. [New York:] The New American Library, [1967], pp. 252-257 as The Steinpiltz Method; Danby, Mary, Editor. The Sixth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories. [London:] Fontana Books, [1971], pp. [141] 142-145; Hoke, Helen, Editor. Terrors, Torments and Traumas an Anthology. Nashville and New York: Thomas Nelson, [1978], pp. 49-52; Coren, Alan, Editor. Present Laughter. [London:] Robson Books, [1982], pp. [150] 151-155; Danby, Mary, Editor. 65 Great Murder Mysteries. [London: Octopus Books, 1983], pp. [277] 278-280; Cuddon, J. A., Editor. The Penguin Book of Horror Stories. London: Bloomsbury Books, [1984], pp. [506] 507-509; Editor anonymous. Chamber of Horrors. [London:] Octopus Books, [1988], pp. 162-165.]; Dean, Charles and Clyde Wachsberger, Editors. Of Leaf and Flower. New York: Persea Books, [2001], pp. 117-123; Slung, Michele, Editor. The Garden of Reading. Woodstock and New York: The Overlook Press, [2004], pp. [110] 111-114.]

[Reply to a book review.] [With Joshua Podro.] Truth Seeker 82: 43, March.

Majorca – The Fortunate Island. Harper’s Bazaar (British edition) 42: [100] – [101], 137-138, 140, 142, March.

Lawrence Vindicated. New Republic 132: 16-20, 21 March. A review of Richard Aldington’s ‘Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry’. [Reference: O’Brien G0745.] Reprinted in Luce, Robert B, Editor. The Faces of Five Decades Selections from Fifty Years of The New Republic 1914-1964. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1964], pp. 346-353.]

‘The Greek Myths.’ Times Literary Supplement, 25 March, p. 181. [Reply to review, 4 March, p.137. Rejoinder by E. R. Leach, 29 April, p.209.]

The Integrity of the Poet. Listener 53: 579–580, 31 March. [Letters in reply 53: 623, 7 April and 53: 669, 14 April.]

Peasant Poet. Hudson Review 8: 99–105, Spring. [Review of John Clare’s Selected Poems, edited by James Reeves.] See C450.

These be Your Gods, O Israel! Essays in Criticism 5: 129–150, April. [Replies 5:293–298, July.]

The Terror of History. Spectator 194: 399–401, 1 April. [Review of Mircea Eliade’s The Myth of the Eternal Return.]

*The Lost Jewel. New Statesman 49: 476, 2 April.

[Later re-titled as ‘A Lost Jewel.’]

Numismatics for Student Christians. New Statesman 49: 546, 16 April. [Review of Christ and the Caesars by Ethelbert Stauffer.]

They Say ... They Say. Punch 228: 491- 493, 20 April.

Gerard Manley Hopkins. Times Literary Supplement, 29 April, p.209. [Letter of apology for siring the new critical approach to Hopkins. See editorial in TLS, 18 March, p. 165 to which this letter replies.]

*The Clearing. New Yorker 31: 33, 30 April.

The Oedipus Myth. Atlantic 195: 56–59, May. [Version of A72.]

Christ and Caesar. New Statesman 49: 650, 7 May. [Letter in reply to letter by W. A. Wordsworth 49: 580, 23 April, which is reply to C482.]

Lawrence of Arabia. New Republic 132: 46, 16 May. [Letter rebutting William McFee’s letter of 18 April to New Republic concerning Lawrence’s exploits.]

*(Say) – The Three Pebbles – Penthesilea. London Magazine 2:35–36, June. [The poem ‘(Say)’ was later published as ‘My Moral Forces.’]

The Abominable Mr. Gunn. Punch 228: 782–784, 29 June.

Greek Myths and Pseudo Myths. Hudson Review 8: 212–230, Summer. [About the Trojan War and myths surrounding it; material of A72.]

[Letter on Poetry magazine’s fund raising.] Poetry 86: [inside front cover], July.

The Whitaker Negroes. Encounter 5: 21–29, July.

[Reprinted in Spender, Stephen, Irving Kristol and Melvin J. Lasky, Editors. Encounters An Anthology from the First Ten Years of ‘Encounter’ Magazine. New York: Basic Books, [1963], pp. 92-105.]

*The Clearing. New Statesman 50: 19, 2 July.

*Question. New Yorker 31: 24, 30 July. [Revised and re-titled as ‘Possibly’ in later appearances.]

New Light on Dream-Flight. New Republic 133: 18–19, 8 August.

Under the Shadow of Yggdrasil. New Statesman 50: 219–220, 20 August. [Review of Brian Branston’s Gods of the North and Walter Otto’s Homeric Gods.] Commentary by Jacquetta Hawkes, 27 August, p.243.]

*The Tenants. New Yorker 31: 28, 3 September.

*To a Spiteful Critic. Punch 229: 327, 21 September.

[Letter about review of A69.] Shenandoah 7: [65] –66, Autumn. [Review by Hugh Kenner, 6: 44–53, Spring 1955; rejoinder by Kenner 7: 66–67, Autumn.]

An Appointment for Candelmas. Fantasy and Science Fiction 9: 124–128, October.

Graves, Gods and Psychoanalysts. New Statesman 50: 398, 1 October. [Reply to Jacquetta Hawkes, 50: 243, 27 August, which is a reply to C495.]

Trín-Trín-Trín. Punch 229: 394–395, 5 October.

The Spoiled Honeymoon. Atlantic 196: 72, 74, 76, 78, 80 December. [On George Sand and Chopin. See A77.]

*The Tenants. New Statesman 50: 800, 10 December.