NMLP P-032778 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Necessary Angel

Wallace Stevens · Alfred A. Knopf (New York) · 1951

US Knopf first edition precedes the Faber and Faber UK edition (1960). Prose rather than verse, but the true first appearance of the collection.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-032778 for "The Necessary Angel" by Wallace Stevens (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-032778, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).