The Etruscans. Art News Annual 25: 100–120, 180, 183. [Reprinted as ‘The Cultured Romans’.]

The Nazarene Gospel. Commentary 21: 85, January. [Reply to a review of The Nazarene Gospel Restored by Gerson D. Cohen, Commentary 20: 482, 484-485, November 1955; rejoinder, 21: 85, January.]

English Nursery Rhymes. Listener 55: 99–101, 19 January. [Review of The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, edited by Peter and Iona Opie.]

Why I Live in Majorca. Réalités (English language edition) no. 2: [14-15] 16-18 [19] 20 [21], 72, February. [Reprinted A84, in an expanded version incorporating C455, as ‘Why I Live in Majorca’.]

George Sand. Sunday Times, 26 February, p.2. [Letter about A77.]

These Be Thy Gods, O Israel! New Republic 134: 16–18, 27 February; 134: 17–18, 5 March.

[Reply by Delmore Schwartz and others in New Republic 134: 20-22, 19 March; reply by Karl Shapiro in New Republic 134: 3,23, 2 April. Comments by C. W. Davies in Essays in Criticism 5: 293-296, July 1955 and by John Cotton, pp. 296-297 and by F. W. Bateson, pp. 297-298. Reply by Ralph Maud, Essays in Criticism, 18, No. 1, January 1968, pp.60-62.]

*End of the World. Poetry London-New York 1:16, March–April.

Cambridge Upstairs. Punch 230: 316–317, 14 March.

‘Ha, Ha!’ Chort-led Nig-ger. Punch 230: 331–333, 21 March.

*The Coral Pool. Punch 230: 424, 11 April.

Decline of Roman Emperor. Daily Telegraph, 27 April, p.8. [Review of Gregorio Marañó’s Tiberius.]

Edmund Wilson: A Protestant Abroad. New Republic 134: [13]14–16, 30 April. [Reprinted as ‘Religion: None; Conditioning: Protestant’ in A84.]

Culture Creep. Commentary 21: 573–577, June.

[Review of Richard Dorson’s The Negro Folktale in Michigan.]

Twelve Poets on Poetry Magazine. Poetry 88: 204, June. [Quotes Graves on the importance of Poetry magazine in his life.]

*Gratitude for a Nightmare, New Statesman 51: 631, 2 June.

*Woman and Tree. New Yorker 32: 38, 9 June.

*Max Beerbohm at Rapallo. Punch 230: 755, 27 June.

*A Bouquet from a Fellow Roseman. New Yorker 32: 30, 30 June.

*The Grandfather’s Complaint. Punch 231: 155, 8 August.

Pandora’s Box and Eve’s Apple. New Republic 135: 16–18, 13 August. [Review of Pandora’s Box: The Changing Aspects of Mythical Symbol by Dora and Erwin Panofsky. See C521.]

Knobbed Cudgels No Fair. Saturday Review 39: 24, 25 August. [Reply to Horace Gregory’s review of The Crowning Privilege.]

*Song: A Beach in Spain. Punch 231: 251, 29 August.

Ditching in a Fishless Sea. Punch 231: 276–278, 5 September.

Pandora’s Box and Eve’s Apple. Spectator 197: 324, 7 September. [Review of Pandora’s Box: The Changing Aspects of Mythical Symbol by Dora and Erwin Panofsky. See C518.]

Soldier’s Homer. New Republic 135: 17–19, 24 September. [Review of The Odyssey of Homer, translated by T. E. Shaw (Col. T. E. Lawrence). Reprinted as ‘Colonel Lawrence’s Odyssey’ in A84 and A86.]

ENTRY CANCELLED. See C530.1

Jewish Jesus, Gentile Christ. New Republic 135: 25–27,

15 October. [Review of The Book of Kerith by George Moore. Reprinted as ‘Don’t Fidget, Young Man!’]

ENTRY CANCELLED. See C529.1

Robert Graves Demurs. Commentary 22: 471–472, November. [Reply to Arnold Sherman, ‘A Talk with Robert Graves’ 22: 364–366, October. Rejoinder by Sherman, 22: 472.]

I Hate Poems. Punch 231: 612–614, 21 November.

*A Ballad of Alexander and Queen Janet – Destruction of Evidence. London Magazine 3: 7–19, December. [‘A Ballad of Alexander and Queen Janet’ was later re-titled as ‘Alexander and Queen Janet’. ‘Destruction of Evidence’ was revised in later appearances.]

*A Plea to Boys and Girls. Time and Tide 37: 1460, 1 December.

*To a Caricaturist, Who Got Me Wrong. New Republic 135: 27, 17 December.

Roots of Arthurian Mythology. Times Literary Supplement, 21 December, p.766. [Review of Wales and the Arthurian Legend by Roger Sherman Loomis. Reprinted as ‘The Gold Roofs of Sinadon’.]

*The Demon. Poetry London–New York 1:2 13, Winter. This is an early textual state and title of the poem that was later published as ‘Gratitude for a Nightmare’.]

Criticism of Sir Herbert Read. New Republic 135: 17–19, 24 December. [Reprinted as ‘An Eminent Collaborationist’ in A84 and A86.]

Two Celtic Anthologies. New Statesman 52: 848, 29 December. [Review of Early Irish Lyrics, ed. Gerard Murphy and The Burning Tree, ed. Gwyn Williams.]