| Project Editor/Coordinator/Director | Diane Williams |
| Poetry by | William Butler Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, May Swenson, Anonymous, Robert Frost, Robert Browning, Theodore Roethke, Countee Cullen, Anne Bradshaw, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Weldon Kees, Trumbull Stickney, Howard Moss, William Wordsworth, James Stephens, Anne Sexton, Paul Zimmer, William Carlos Williams, Robert Creeley, W. H. Auden, Sharon Olds, John Betjeman, Sarah N. Cleghorn, Louise Glück, Thomas Hardy, Richard Lovelace, Wilfred Owen, Bettie Sellers, Jonathan Swift, Jose Emilio Pacheco, John Ciardi, William Stafford, William Blake, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Henry Taylor, Robert Graves, Peter Davison, John Donne, Richard Wilbur, J. V. Cunningham, Nina Cassian, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Wright, John Clare, Josephine Miles, Emma Lee Warrior, Thomas Hardy, Richard Eberhart, Wendy Cope, David B. Axelrod, Lewis Carroll, Jonathan Holden, E. E. Cummings, Anonymous, John Masefield, William Blake, Wallace Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Snyder, Timothy Steele, Geoffrey Hill, Walter de la Mare, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Taniguchi Buson, T. S. Eliot, Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Stevenson, John Haines, Emily Dickinson, Jean Toomer, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Matsuo Bashō, Richard Brautigan, Gary Snyder, Michael Stillman, Penny Harter, Nicholas A. Virgilio, Richard Wright, Hayden Carruth, John Ridland, John Keats, T. E. Hulme, Robert Bly, Philip Larkin, Emily Grosholz, Stevie Smith, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, William Shakespeare, Jon Stallworthy, Sylvia Plath, N. Scott Momaday, Ruth Whitman, Chidiock Tichborne, George Herbert, Edmund Waller, Denise Levertov, Jane Kenyon, Margaret Atwood, W. S. Merwin, John Ashbery, Robinson Jeffers, Robert Burns, Ben Jonson, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Dudley Randall, William Blake, Alexander Pope, William Butler Yeats, John Updike, Frances Cornford, Emanuel di Pasquale, Aphra Behn, Robert Herrick, A. E. Housman, Janet Lewis, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, William Cole, Hilaire Belloc, R. S. Gwynn, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Fred Chappell, Robert Frost, Michael Stillman, William Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Gwendolyn Brooks, Thomas Wyatt, Dorothy Parker, Max Beerbohm, Thomas Campion, Walter Savage Landor, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, John Keats, John Donne, Ronald Gross, Michael Drayton, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Carper, Martial, John Harington, E. E. Cummings, J. V. Cunningham, John Frederick Nims, Stevie Smith, Thom Gunn, Bruce Bennett, W. H. Auden, Wendy Cope, Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Cornelius J. Ter Maat, Keith Waldrop, Dylan Thomas, Leigh Hunt, Robert Bridges, Elizabeth Bishop, Denise Levertov, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Crane, Wallace Stevens, Gary Gildner, Carolyn Forché, George Herbert, John Hollander, Dorthi Charles, Linda Pastan, A. R. Ammons, Carole Satyamurti, Alice Fulton, Charles Olson, T. S. Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Matthew the Apostle, Christina Rossetti, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Hugo Williams, Lorine Niedecker, D. H. Lawrence, Dick Allen, Charles Martin, Edward Field, A. D. Hope, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Julia Alvarez, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Samuel Menashe, Francisco X. Alarcón, Anne Stevenson, Anonymous, Yusef Komunyakaa, Donald Justice, Adrienne Rich, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Alberto Rios, Philip Larkin, Federico García Lorca, Horace, Omar Khayyám, Hugh Kingsmill, George Starbuck, Grace Treasone, Stephen Tropp, Rod McKuen, Julia A. Moore, Bill Knott, W. Dabney Stuart, Michael Harper, Ted Kooser, Wallace McRae, Arthur Guiterman, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Carl Sandburg, Thomas Gray, Emma Lazarus, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Francis, Matthew Arnold, Margaret Atwood, W. H. Auden, R. L. Barth, Louise Bogan, Emily Brontë, Robert Browning, Thomas Carew, Geoffrey Chaucer, G. K. Chesterton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Donne, Rita Dove, John Dryden, Louise Erdrich, Allen Ginsberg, Dana Gioia, H.D., Donald Hall, Robert Hayden, James Hayford, Anthony Hecht, Garrett Hongo, Randall Jarrell, Robinson Jeffers, Elizabeth Jennings, Irving Layton, Philip Levine, Stephen Shu-Ning Liu, Robert Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Andrew Marvell, David Mason, George Meredith, James Merrill, Charlotte Mew, John Milton, Frederick Morgan, Howard Nemerov, Octavio Paz, Robert Phillips, John Crowe Ransom, Henry Reed, Alastair Reid, Mary Jo Salter, Karl Shapiro, Charles Simic, David R. Slavitt, Christopher Smart, William Jay Smith, W. D. Snodgrass, William Stafford, Wallace Stevens, Ruth Stone, Amy Uyematsu, Mona Van Duyn, Derek Walcott, Miller Williams, Yvor Winters |
| Publisher | HarperCollins College Publishers |
| Collected by | Roland Barthes |
| Cover Printed by | Coral Graphic Services, Inc. |
| Cover Art by | C. Michael Dudash |
| Production Director/Manager | Su Levine |
| Printed and Bound by | R. R. Donnelley & Sons |
| Translated by | Edwin Arlington Robinson, James Michie, John Frederick Nims, Edward Fitzgerald, Robert Graves, Omar Ali-Shah, Dick Davis |
| Photo/Picture Researcher | Scott, Foresman |
| Art Director/Editor | Lucy Krikorian |
| Cover/Jacket Design by | PC&F |
| Essay by | Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Brontë, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Anton Chekhov, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, William Faulkner, Nadine Gordimer, Raymond Carver |
| Development | Katharine H. Glynn |
| Acquisitions Editor | Lisa Moore |
| Other | Laura Leever, Willie Lane, Circa 86, Inc. |
| Lyrics by | Run-DMC, Paul Simon, John Lennon, Paul McCartney |
| Contributor | W. Somerset Maugham, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Chuang Tzu, John Updike, William Faulkner, Katherine Mansfield, James Baldwin, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Anne Porter, John Cheever, Alice Walker, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Kate Chopin, Jack London, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, Stephen Crane, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Luke the Evangelist, Raymond Carver, Zora Neale Hurston, D. H. Lawrence, Doris Lessing, Gabriel García Márquez, Bobbie Ann Mason, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, Frank O'Connor, Tillie Olsen, Philip Roth, James Thurber, Eudora Welty, William Carlos Williams, Virginia Woolf, Plato, Aristotle, Samuel Johnson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Glaspell, J.M. Synge, Garrison Keillor, Sophocles, Henrik Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Beth Henley, David Henry Hwang, Terrence McNally, August Wilson, E. R. Dodds, Thomas Rymer, Anthony Burgess, Edward Albee, George Bernard Shaw, María Irene Fornés, Robert Wallace, Abbie Huston Evans, Cleanth Brooks, Robert Langbaum, Leslie A. Fiedler, Brett C. Millier, Hugh Kenner, Darryl Pinckney, Elaine Showalter, Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Sigmund Freud, Harold Bloom, György Lukács, Terry Eagleton, Northrop Frye, Maud Bodkin, Stanley Fish, Robert Scholes, Geoffrey Hartman |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | New York |
| Copyright | 1995 |
| Pages / Font | 1859 pages |
| ISBN | 0-673-52509-0 |
| EAN 5 | 90000 |
| Barcode | 9 780673 525093 |
| Library of Congress Classification Number | PM6014.L58 1995 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification Number | 808--dc20 |
| Library of Congress Call Number | 94-9933 |
| Printer's Key | 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -DOC- 01 00 99 98 97 |
