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SECTION C: Articles, poems and letters published in newspapers, magazines and other periodicals.
1967

C804

No, Mac, It Just Wouldn’t Work. Playboy 14: 117, 195, January.

C805

*Mist. New Statesman 73: 89, 20 January. [Revised in later appearances.]

C806

*Gooseflesh Abbey. New Statesman 73: 300, 3 March.

C807

The Poetry Chair at Oxford. The Times, 6 March, p. 11. [ Letter. ]

C808

*Palm Tree, The, (Song). New Statesman 73: 369, 17 March.

C809

*Wild Cyclamen. Ladies’ Home Journal 84: 139, April.

C810

Matter of Address. The Times, 24 April, p.9

[Letter on epistolary etiquette.] [This was reprinted in: Gregory, Kenneth, Editor. The First Cuckoo . . . London: Times Books and George Allen & Unwin, [1976], p. 297.]

C811

On Poetry. Virginia Quarterly Review 43: 196–219, Spring.

C811.1

Alexander Millward In Memoriam. Aural News, June. [Seen only as an offprint; volume and page number unknown. Contains Graves’s translation of Goethe’s Wer nie sein Brod mit Tränen ass.] [The offprint, 14.6 × 22.9 cm., is printed on off-white glossy paper].

Wer nie sein Brod mit Tränen ass,Wer nie die kummervollen NächteAuf seinem Bette weinend sass,Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Mächte.

Graves’s Translation:

But you who never ate the bread

Of grief, nor huddled on your bed

Weeping away the night’s black hours,

What know you of celestial Powers?

C812

*Wigs and Beards. Atlantic 219: 60, June.

C813

*In Perspective. New Statesman 73: 767, 2 June.

C814

Robert Graves on John Masefield. Times Literary Supplement, 22 June, p.568. [Extracts from an address by Graves at the memorial service for John Masefield in Westminster Abbey on 20 June 1967. See also B68 and C820.]

C814.1

Graves’ Counter Charges. News Letter (Belfast), 24 June, p. 4. [Letter in reply to a review of A117.]

C815

Crane Bag. New York Review of Books 8: 21 –24, 29 June. [Review of Anne Ross’, Pagan Celtic Britain. Reprinted in A125.]

C815.1

*Our Self – Pride of Love – The Beggar Maid and King Cophetua – Crown of Stars. The Journal of Creative Behaviour 1. 3 [poetry supplement]: 10–12, July. [Includes Graves’s five-paragraph narrative on the poem ‘The Beggar Maid and King Cophetua’.]

C816

*Brief Withdrawal – Perfectionists – Bites and Kisses – Like Owls – Word – Blackening Sky. NewYorker 43: 32, 8 July. [‘Brief Withdrawal’ was later revised and re-titled as ‘Her Brief Withdrawal’; ‘Blackening Sky’ was revised in later appearances. ’The Perfectionists’ was printed in Poetry Australia no. 19, December 1967, p. 4.]

C817

*Wigs and Beards. New Statesman 74: 90, 21 July.

C818

ENTRY CANCELLED. See C841.1

C819

*Fact of the Act. Atlantic 220: 71, August.

C820

Chaucer’s Man. Poetry Review 58: 241, 243, 245–246, Autumn. [On John Masefield. An expanded version of the address given at the memorial service for John Masefield. See also B68 and C814.]

C820.1

*To Ogmian Hercules. New American Review 1: 199, [11 September]. [Poem differs textually from that published in A123. This is published in the form of a hardcover book, bound in black paper-covered boards and issued in white dust-jacket printed in black, red and blue. It was also issued simultaneously in the form of a paperback book.]

C821

*Twins – Sail and Oar – Sun-Face and Moon-Face. New Statesman 74: 361, 22 September.

C822

The Many Lives of My Mother. Family Weekly, 24 September, pp. 6-7. [This was published in a revised version in C833.2 as ‘Miss Briton’s Lady Companion.’

C822.1

Authors Take Sides on Vietnam. Envoy 1: 15, September. [Graves gives his opinions on the war in Vietnam in answer to a questionnaire. The entire article appears on pp. [8-9], 10-16. Precedes the appearance in B67.2.]

C823

One of the Few. Listener 78: 426, 5 October.

[Remarks on Robert Frost including BBCl’s ‘Robert Frost – A Lover’s Quarrel with the World’.]

C824

*Crown of Stars. New Statesman 74: 440, 6 October. [This poem was revised in later appearances.]

C825

Robert Graves Translates the Rubaiyyat. Daily Telegraph Magazine, 13 October, pp.40–42, 44.

C826

ENTRY CANCELLED. See C845.1

C827

ENTRY CANCLLED. See C845.4

C828

*All Except Hannibal. New Statesman, 74: 643, 10 November. [This poem was revised in later appeareances.]

C828.1

Spinning in His Graves. Time 90: 18, 17 November. [Letter in reply to a review of A120, 90: 40, 3 November.]

C829

Omar’s Puppet Show. Listener 78: 670, 23 November. [Letter in reply to review by Martin Dodsworth, 9 November, of the Graves/Shah Rubaiyat.]

C830

The Rubaiyyat. The Times, 30 November, p. 11. [Letter concerning the Graves/Shah translation.]

C830.1

*Our Self – Pride of Love – Twins – Sail and Oar – Sun-Face and Moon-Face. Envoy 1: 32-33, December. [‘Our Self’, ‘Pride of Love’, ‘Sail and Oar’ and ‘Sun-Face and Moon-Face’ were revised in later appearances. This issue also contains Louis T. Stanley’s article on Graves, ‘The Poet Who Looks Like a Prize-Fighter’, pp. 34-35.]

C831

Penthouse Interview: Robert Graves. Penthouse 3: 67–70, 93, December.

C832

*Song: One in Many. Atlantic 220: 66, December.

C833

Reincarnation. Playboy 14: 174, 177, 233–239, December. [Includes poem ‘The Castle’ (see A33). ‘Reincarnation’ was reprinted in A125 and in: Editors of Playboy. Beyond Reason. [Chicago:] Playboy Press, [1973], pp. 139-156.]

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