NMLP P-041646 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems

Richard Wilbur · Reynal & Hitchcock, New York · 1947

US only. Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1947 is the true first and the sole first edition — this was Wilbur's first book and no simultaneous or near-contemporaneous British edition was published. Wilbur's first UK book was the later Faber and Faber (London) collection Poems 1943-1956, in 1957, which is a separate selected volume and not an edition of The Beautiful Changes. The census claim of US-only precedence is confirmed.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-041646 for "The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems" by Richard Wilbur (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041646, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).