A Life Bang-Full of Kicks and Shocks. New York Times Book Review, 5 January, p.6. [Review of Roy Campbell’s Collected Poems. Rejoinders 16 February, p. 36 and 9 March, p. 36.] Reprinted as ‘It Ended with a Bang’ (A86, A90).
The Glass Castle and the Grail. Time and Tide 39: 45–46, 11 January. [Review of Geoffrey Ashe’s King Arthur’s Avalon. Reply by Ashe 39: 70, 18 January.]
Below the Waist. Time 71: 4, 3 March. [Letter in which
Graves denies authorship of The Sweeniad, reviewed in Time 71: 10 February, pp. 106, 108 and Graves objects to Time’s description of his waistcoat, 71: 6 January, p. 30.]
*Fingers in the Nesting Box. New Yorker 34: 104, 29 March.
Sweeney Among the Blackbirds. Texas Quarterly 1: 83–102, Spring. [Reminiscence and speculation through an Irish legend.]
*Nothing. Saturday Review 41: 69, 12 April.
Archetypal Wise Old Man. New Statesman 55: 538, 26 April. [Review of C. G. Jung’s The Undiscovered Self.]
A Toast to Ava Gardner. New Yorker 34: 34–38, 26 April. [Also published in Books & Bookmen 11 (December 1965), pp.6, 8, 92–94.1
Two Studies of Scientific Atheism. New Republic 138: 13–17, 28 April. [Review of Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am an Atheist and Julian Huxley’s Religion without Revelation. Letter of reply by Charles R. Lawrence, 138: [23]-24,16 June; letter in reply by Bernard M. Peebles, 138: 24, 16 June; reply by Graves, 138: 24, 16 June. Reprinted in A125.]
*The Stable Door. New Statesman 55: 640, 17 May.
New Light on an Old Murder. Sunday Times, 18 May, p.9. [Letter in reply, 25 May, p.4. Graves’ reply, 15 June, p.4.]
Note: “Stara Zbrodnia W Nowym Świetle”, a translation into Polish of Graves’s ‘New Light on an Old Murder’ (C586) appeared in KLAUDIUSZ I MESSALINA. [Katowice:] Wydawnictwo „Książnica”, [2004], pp. 531-535 [536].
*The Enlisted Man. New Yorker 34: 109, 24 May.
Caesar and the Pirates. New Republic 138: 17–18, 26 May. [Reprinted as The Pirates Who Captured Caesar’ in A90 and A125.]
*Augeias and I. Harpers 216: 35, June.
*Woman and Tree. Time and Tide 39: 704, 7 June.
Murder of Claudius. Sunday Times, 15 June, p.4. [Letter about the Pumpkinification of Claudius.]
The Historical Novel: II. The Author 68: 88, Summer.
[Contribution to a symposium on the future of the novel.]
*Around the Mountain. New Yorker 34: 26, 5 July.
Doctor Paccard of Mont Blanc. New Republic 139: 21–22, 7 July. [Review of T. Graham Brown and Gavin de Beer’s The First Ascent of Mont Blanc]
Mostly It’s Money That Makes a Writer Go, Go, Go. New York Times Book Review, 13 July, p.5.
*Flight Report. Saturday Review 41: 30, 9 August.
[The first stanza, fourth line reads “Where almonds also bloom like old men’s pools”. This should read “Where almonds also bloom like old men’s polls”.]
[Mend Them Fences.] New York Times, 14 August, p. C31. [Graves’s song lyrics ‘Mend Them Fences’ quoted, in part, in ‘Lyrics of Pop Songs Are Getting New Emphasis’ by Robert Shelton. The song was issued in 1968 by Decca Stereo (DL75018) on the album ‘Avant Slant, (one PLUS I = II?)’, performed by the John Benson Brooks Trio.]
The Wall. Times Literary Supplement, 15 August, p.x.
[About bad books and the difficulties of publishing.]
Praise Me, and I Will Whistle to You. New Republic 139: 10–15, 1September. [Reprinted in A125.]
*The Twin of Sleep. New Yorker 34: 93, 27 September.
The American Poet as a Businessman. Esquire 50: 47, 51, 56, 58, October. [Reprinted as ‘The Making and Marketing of Poetry’ in A86, 90.]
The Viscountess and the Short-Haired Girl. Gentleman’s Quarterly 27: 82–83, 124, 126, 128, 130, 132, 138, 140, 141, October.
*Call It a Good Marriage. New Statesman 56: 534, 18 October.
*Read Me, Please! New Yorker 34: 44, 18 October.
Corn Can Sparkle Like a Star. New York Times Book Review, 26 October, p. 59. [Review of E. E. Cummings’s 95 Poems.]
What Was That War Like, Sir? Observer, 9 November, pp. 3–4. [About World War I, reprinted in A90 and A125. Letters of reply, 16 November, p.6; 23 November, p.6; 30 November, p.20. Reprinted in The Jerusalem Post, 11 November, p. 2. Reprinted in A125.]
The Sinking of Sea Venture. The Times, 20 November, p. 13. [Letter.]
Seven Poets. New World Writing 14: 7–10, [December.] [Introduction to a small anthology of poems by T.S. Matthews, James Reeves, Sally Chilver, Alastair Reid, Terence Hards, Martin Seymour-Smith and Marnie Pomeroy.]