No, Mac, It Just Wouldn’t Work. Playboy 14: 117, 195, January.
*Mist. New Statesman 73: 89, 20 January. [Revised in later appearances.]
*Gooseflesh Abbey. New Statesman 73: 300, 3 March.
The Poetry Chair at Oxford. The Times, 6 March, p. 11. [ Letter. ]
*Palm Tree, The, (Song). New Statesman 73: 369, 17 March.
*Wild Cyclamen. Ladies’ Home Journal 84: 139, April.
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.]
On Poetry. Virginia Quarterly Review 43: 196–219, Spring.
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?
*Wigs and Beards. Atlantic 219: 60, June.
*In Perspective. New Statesman 73: 767, 2 June.
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.]
Graves’ Counter Charges. News Letter (Belfast), 24 June, p. 4. [Letter in reply to a review of A117.]
Crane Bag. New York Review of Books 8: 21 –24, 29 June. [Review of Anne Ross’, Pagan Celtic Britain. Reprinted in A125.]
*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’.]
*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.]
*Wigs and Beards. New Statesman 74: 90, 21 July.
ENTRY CANCELLED. See C841.1
*Fact of the Act. Atlantic 220: 71, August.
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.]
*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.]
*Twins – Sail and Oar – Sun-Face and Moon-Face. New Statesman 74: 361, 22 September.
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.’
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.]
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’.]
*Crown of Stars. New Statesman 74: 440, 6 October. [This poem was revised in later appearances.]
Robert Graves Translates the Rubaiyyat. Daily Telegraph Magazine, 13 October, pp.40–42, 44.
ENTRY CANCELLED. See C845.1
ENTRY CANCLLED. See C845.4
*All Except Hannibal. New Statesman, 74: 643, 10 November. [This poem was revised in later appeareances.]
Spinning in His Graves. Time 90: 18, 17 November. [Letter in reply to a review of A120, 90: 40, 3 November.]
Omar’s Puppet Show. Listener 78: 670, 23 November. [Letter in reply to review by Martin Dodsworth, 9 November, of the Graves/Shah Rubaiyat.]
The Rubaiyyat. The Times, 30 November, p. 11. [Letter concerning the Graves/Shah translation.]
*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.]
Penthouse Interview: Robert Graves. Penthouse 3: 67–70, 93, December.
*Song: One in Many. Atlantic 220: 66, December.
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.]