*Symptoms of Love – The Sharp Ridge – Under the Olives – The Visitation – Fragment – Apple Island – The Falcon Woman – Troughs of Sea – The Laugh – The Death Grapple – In Single Syllables – The Starred Coverlet – The Intrusion – Patience – Hag-Ridden – The Cure – Turn of the Moon – Seldom, Yet Now – The Secret Land – To the Muse Goddess – Anchises to Aphrodite. Observer, 22 January, p.21.
[Letter about Graves’s Oxford degrees.] Daily Telegraph, 2 February, p. 2.
Two Poets. Manchester Guardian, 11 February, p.6.
[Letter about James Reeves and Graves in reply to a review by Bernard Bergonzi of Collected Poems by James Reeves, 20 January, p.6.]
*The Dangerous Gift. Listener 65: 295, 16 February.
*[Verses composed over the telephone to William Hickey to mark Graves’s election as Oxford Professor of Poetry.] Daily Express, 17 February, p.3.
An Uneasy Compromise. Observer, 19 March, pp.21–22. [Review of the New English Bible. Letters of reply 26 March, p.22. Reprinted in A125. See also C677.2.]
Dead Man’s Bottles. Fantasy and Science Fiction 20: 52–64, April. [A translation into Spanish under the title Las botellas del muerto was published in: Ciencia Ficcion Selección 35. [Barcelona:] Editorial Bruguera, [1978], pp. [79-80], 81-103. The translation is by Carlos M. Riera.]
*A Lost World. New Yorker 37: 39, 1 April.
*Ruby and Amethyst. Observer, 30 April, p.30.
[Review of the New English Bible.] Atlas 1: 70-73, May. [See also C675.]
*Piebald’s Tail. Ladies Home Journal 78: 112, May.
Before the Ceiling Falls In. Daily Express, 31 May, p.6. [Interview, mainly quotations.]
Service to the Muse. Atlantic 207: 43–44, June.
[Introductory comments to C681.]
*Symptoms of Love – The Sharp Ridge – Under the Olives – The Visitation – Fragment – Apple Island – The Falcon Woman – Troughs of Sea – The Laugh – The Death Grapple – The Starred Coverlet – The Intrusion – In Single Syllables – Patience – Hag-Ridden – The Cure – To the Muse Goddess – The Secret Land – Seldom Yet Now – Turn of the Moon –Anchises to Aphrodite. Atlantic 207: 45–48, June.
A Poet’s-Eye View of the World. Auckland Star, 14 June, p. 4. [Graves opines on the state of the world.]
[Review of Harriette Wilson’s Mistress of Many.] Evening Standard, 27 June, p.11.
*The Two Witches – Song: Gardens Close at Dusk. Listener 65: 1127, 29 June.
[Letter objecting to a reference by A. Alvarez to the Clark Lectures.] Observer, 9 July, p. 18, with reply by Alvarez. Further replies by Graves and Alvarez, 6 August, p. 14.]
*Sullen Moods. New Yorker 37: 44, 9 September.
*The Cool Web. Times Literary Supplement, 13 October, p.695. [A translation into German by Erich Fried.]
*Privacy. New Yorker 37: 52, 21 October.
Accents. Sunday Telegraph, 22 October, p. 18. [In ‘Words of the Week About. . . .’]
*The Dialecticians. Atlantic 208: 157, November.
*The Two Witches. Argosy (England) 22: 70, November.
*Two Witches. Good Housekeeping 153: 218, November.
*Matador Gored. Saturday Evening Post 234: 53, 4 November.
*Four New Love Poems: The Horizon – In Her Praise – Trance – Variables of Green. Saturday Evening Post 234: 93, 11 November. [‘The Horizon’ was revised and expanded in later appearances. ‘In Her Praise’ and ‘Variables of Green’ were revised in later appearances. ‘The Trance’ was later revised and re-titled as ‘The Watch’ in A101 and later appearances. ]
*Variables of Green. Listener 66: 943, 30 November.
The Dedicated Poet: The Oxford Inaugural Lecture. Encounter 17: 11 – 18, December.
*Burn It! Harpers 223: 49, December.
Robert Graves’ Reply on Hebrew Myths. Jewish Chronicle, 1 December, p.24. [Letter. Graves replies to critics of his address to the Hillel Foundation.]