The Word Báraka. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, Series 2, Number 12, pp. 105–115.
Virgil Cult. Virginia Quarterly Review 38: 13–35, Winter.
[Reprinted as ‘The Anti-Poet’ in A97.]
*The Ambrosia of Dionysus and Semele. New Yorker 37: 30, 13 January.
*Golden Anchor – In Trance at a Distance – Possessed –A Restless Ghost – Uncalendared Love. New Yorker 37: 30, 27 January.
*Beware, Madam! Atlantic 209: 48 February. [Revised in later appearances.]
[Answer to a questionnaire about poetry.] London Magazine n.s. 1: 27, February.
Criticizing Poetry. Times Literary Supplement, 2 February, p.73. [Reply to editorial of same title, 12 January, p.25; further reply by Ken Geering, 9 February, p.89; rejoinder by Graves, 23 February, p.121.]
*Truth is Poor Physic – In Her Only Way – Hedges Freaked With Snow (Songs for the Lute I, II and III, respectively). Observer Weekend Review, 18 February 1962, p. 30.
The Tenement: A Vision of Imperial Rome. New Strand 1: 331–336, March. [Reprinted as ‘The Apartment House’ in A106.]
*Two New Poems: Confiteor Ut Fas – O. Oxford Magazine n.s. 2: 255, 15 March.
Robert Graves & The White Goddess. Michigan’s Voices 2: 27-28, Spring. [Graves’s elaboration on the nature of the Muse and The White Goddess following, publication of ‘The White Goddess – A Symposium on Poetry’ in Michigan’s Voices 2: 8-11, 22-23, Winter.]
Ignore the Poet. The Times, 30 March, p. 15.
[Letter advising this attitude. This was reprinted in: Gregory, Kenneth, Editor. The Second Cuckoo…London, Boston and Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, [1983], pp. 192-193.]
*The Winged Heart. Observer, 1 April, p. 28. [Revised in later appearances.]
*Golden Anchor – Horizon – In Her Praise – Uncalendared Love – The Ambrosia of Dionysus and Semele – Trance. New Statesman 63: 644, 4 May. [‘Trance’ was later revised and re-titled as ‘The Watch’ in A101 and later appearances. ‘In Her Praise’ and ‘The Ambrosia of Dionysus and Semele’ were revised in later appearances.]
*Three New Poems: The Lion Lover – The Recognition – Not at Home. Saturday Evening Post 235: 66, 5 May. [‘Not at Home’ was revised in later appearances.]
*Possessed. Scotsman, 19 May, p. 7.
The Virgil Tradition. The Times, 22 May, p. 13.
[Letter in reply to report of public lecture.]
*Between Moon and Moon – Ibycus in Samos – The Meeting – Name Day – The Wreath. Encounter 18: 36–37 June.
The Toughest Battle of All: When a Regiment is Fighting for Its Life. Daily Express, 9 June, p.8. [About maintenance of regiments, regimental names and regimental traditions. Reprinted in A125.]
Poetic Gold. Georgia Review 16, 122-130, Summer. [Formerly listed as C706.]
*Lion Lover. New Statesman 63: 914, 22 June.
Robert Graves Gives a Poetic View of Crossing Carfax. Oxford Mail, 28 June, p.4. [Article with several quotes by Graves made during the Creweian Oration as well as text of an untitled poem by Graves.]
The rustic, halted by a riverside,
Waits till the bed be empty and well-dried,
Hoping for transit; yet from age to age
The stream glided on and ever yet shall glide
(Although at times twin signal lamps are seen
Turning from red to amber, then to green).
A Journey to Paradise. Argosy (London) 23: 61-62 [63], 64-69, July. [A translation into French of ‘A Journey to Paradise’ was published in Planète, No. 7, November-December 1962, pp. 55-57, [58]-[59], 60-63, under the title Je suis allé au paradis. The translation is by Geneviève Dormann. A translation into Spanish was published in Huxley, Aldous, Wasson, Robert G. and Robert Graves. La experiencia del éxtasis1955-1963 Pioneros del amanecer psiconáutico. [Barcelona:] La Liebre de Marzo, [2003], pp. [118] 119-128 under the title Un viaje al paraíso. The translation into Spanish is by Rosanna Zanarini.]
Strawberries. Sunday Telegraph, 1 July, p. 16. [In ‘Words of the Week About. . . .’]
ENTRY CANCELLED. See C704.1
Journey to Paradise. Holiday 32: 36–37, 110–111, August.
*Not at Home – A Restless Ghost – The Recognition. New Statesman 64: 364, 21 September. [‘Not at Home’ was slightly revised in later appearances.]
*The Cliff Edge. Atlantic 210: 86, October.
*Ouzo Unclouded. Poetry 101: 43, October.
Teenage reading. Observer, 4 November, p. 14. [Letter in reply to ‘Teenage reading list’ by Marghanita Laski, 28 October, p. 23.]
Nummick. The Times, 14 November, p.13.
[Etymological speculation.]
*The Passing of Oisín. Atlantic 210: 64 December.
[This poem was later re-titled ‘The Broken Girth’.]
*The Septuagenarian – The Late Arrival – Endless Pavement. Show 2: [80], [83], December. [This is the first published appearance of three of Graves’s poems: The Septuagenarian, The Late Arrival (later published in a revised form as A Late Arrival) and Endless Pavement, later revised. These poems are printed within a larger article by Kingsley Amis titled Robert Graves: A great poet in an island paradise, pp. 78, [79- 83], 128.]
*Judgement of Paris. Georgia Review 16: 445, Winter.
Robert Graves Writes... Poetry Book Society Bulletin, no. 35, pp.1–2, December.
*The Meeting. Poetry Book Society Bulletin, no. 35, p.2, December.
Poetry. Sunday Telegraph, 2 December, p. 18. [In ‘Words of the Week About. . . .’]
Wave No Banners. Saturday Evening Post 235: 34–35, 38, 41, 15 December. [Reprinted as ‘Christmas Truce’ in A106.]
[Blurb for Niccolo Tucci’s Before My Time.] Daily Mail, 20 December, p. 10.
Three Writers on the Best of Christmas. Sunday Telegraph, 23 December, p.4. [The other writers are William Sansom and Stephen Spender. Graves’s contribution was reprinted in A125 as ‘My Best Christmas’.]