Indexes a total of 514 volumes of anthologized poetry. Some of these are new editions of standard works which have proved so popular over the years that both the new edition and the earlier ones have been included.
Locates more than 75,000 poems. Indexes 11,000 authors writing from all parts of the world, and from remotest antiquity to the present. They write on more than 4,000 subjects, ranging from Aardvarks to Zulus.