[Letter in reply to review of A89.] The Fat Abbot 1: 54–55, Winter. [Review by Adam Parry, 1: 52–59 Fall; rejoinder by Parry 1: 55–56, Winter.]
Isle of Tranquillity: Minorca. Holiday 27: 50–55, 154–157, January. [Reprinted as To Minorca! in A90.]
The Case of the Difficult Husband. Playboy 7: 51–52, 54, 85–87, January. [Reprinted as ‘The Lost Chinese’ in A90 and A106. Also see C637. This and all subsequent references to Playboy should be assumed to be U.S.A. printings unless otherwise specified.] Reprinted in Hefner, Hugh M., Editor. The Twelfth Anniversary Playboy Reader. Chicago: Playboy Press, [1965], pp. [439] 440-452.]
ENTRY CANCELLED. See C645.
*Surgical Ward: Men. Spectator 204: 113, 22 January.
*Twice of the Same Fever. New Yorker 35: 32, 23 January.
Hebrew and Greek. Commentary 29: 173–175, February. [Review of Moses Hadas’s Hellenistic Culture.]
You Win, Houdini! London Magazine 7: 28–37, February.
*The Were-Man. Saturday Review 43: 20, 6 February.
Eccentric. Observer, 28 February, p.4. [A letter about Clark Lectures.]
Eccentric. Observer, 13 March, p.24. [Letter in response to John Wain, 28 February, p. 4.]
*Twice of the Same Fever. Spectator 204: 438, 25 March.
*Surgical Ward: Men. Atlantic 205: 50, April.
[Revised in later appearances.]
An Imperial Tale. Holiday 27: 74–79, 151–154, April.
[Reprinted as The Apartment House’ in A106.]
*Song: A Month of Sundays. London Magazine 7: 29, April. [Later revised and re-titled as ‘Song: Come Enjoy Your Sunday!’]
The Mysteries of the Toadstool God. London Magazine 7: 11–12, May. [Later revised and re-titled as ‘The Ambrosia of Dionysus and Semele’.]
*The Young Goddess. Listener 63: 838, 12 May.
Sealed Lips? Listener 63: 939, 26 May. [Review of Cyril Fall’s The First World War.]
November 5th Address, X l:171–176, June.
*The Simpleton. Listener 63: 1059, 16 June. [Text revised in later appearances.]
*A Piebald’s Tail. Listener 63, 1135, 30 June.
*The Intruders. Saturday Review 43: 31, 2 July.
The Gaudy Games. Sports Illustrated 13: 56–64, 1 August. [Reprinted as ‘The Myconian’ in A106.]
*The Simpleton. The Times of Brazil (São Paulo), 5 August 1960. [Seen only as an extracted cutting; page number unknown. The version of this poem published in A93 is much revised.]
*Teiresias. New Statesman 60: 191, 6 August.
*The Intruders – Lyceia. Listener 64: 299, 25 August. [‘Lyceia’ was revised in later appearances.]
*Two Rhymes about Fate and Money. Spectator 205: 344, 2 September.
*Burn It! New Statesman 60: 392, 17 September.
The Case for Xanthippe. Kenyon Review 22: [597] 598–605, Fall. [On reason and philosophy vs. poetry. Reprinted in A125 and in Gross, John, Editor. The Oxford Book of Essays. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, [1991], pp. [472] 473-479.]
Party of one. Holiday 28: 8, 10–13, October. [Reprinted in B60.2.]
*The Smile of Eve (Song). New Statesman 60: 532, 8 October.
What Bird for Britain? The Times, 28 October, p. 13.
[About a national bird. This letter was reprinted in Gregory, Kenneth, editor. The Third Cuckoo. London: George Allen & Unwin, [1985], p. 65.]
*Jock o’ Binnorie – Robinson Crusoe. New Statesman 60: 654, 29 October. [An earlier version of ‘Jock o’Binnorie’ was published in B10 under the title ‘The Story Teller’.]
*The Person from Porlock. Atlantic 206: 170, November.
*Fate and Money. Good Housekeeping 151: 234, November. [Later re-titled as ‘Two Rhymes About Fate and Money’. The second rhyme was one of the ‘Poems for Children’ in A92 , with the title ‘How and Why’.]
*How and Why. Saturday Review 43: 34, 5 November.
[Later revised and re-titled (incorporating C667) as ‘Two Rhymes About Fate and Money’.]
*Lyceia. Saturday Review 43: 108, 12 November.
*Nightfall at Twenty Thousand Feet. New Yorker 36: 50, 19 November.
*Conversaciones Poeticas de Formentor. Papeles de Son Armadans 57 bis: 14-15, December. The English text of the poem is on p. 14, the Spanish translation by Nobel Laureate Camilo José Celda is on p. 15. This is a revision of the poem ‘The Dialecticians’ originally published in A8 and later re-titled as ‘The Philosophers’ in C131 and C140.
[This is a special issue of the Papeles de Son Armadans for subscribers only with an original cover by Miró and colour illustrations throughout. It was preceded by the regular issue of the magazine, also number 57, December 1960, which had entirely different content and featured the artist Antoni Tàipes. The first separate publication the poem was issued in 1960 as an offprint from C671 in wrappers (100 numbered copies); see D22 of the first edition of this bibliography.]
[Letter in appreciation of Guy Kendall upon his death.] Carthusian 23: 111, December.
*Song: A Month of Sundays. Saturday Review 43: 39, 24 December. [Later revised and re-titled as Song: Come, Enjoy Your Sunday!]
The Quiet Glades of Eden. Saturday Review 43: 25, 31 December.