* Pulitzer Prize winner

  • Platform (an abreviated biography of Taylor adapted from an essay by Andrew D. Miller; includes excerpts from Taylor’s writings) (edited by Mary Flinn), New Virginia Review, Inc., 2001
  • Electra (a verse translation of Sophocles’ play in Sophocles I), University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998
  • A New Pléiade: selected poems (an anthology of poems by seven American poets, by H. Taylor et. al.), Louisiana State University Press, 1998
  • Understanding Fiction: poems, 1986–1996, Louisiana State University Press, 1996
  • Curculio (a translation of the play by Titus Maccius Plautus in Plautus: The Comedies, Volume 1), Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995
  • Compulsory Figures: Essays on Recent American Poets, Louisiana State University Press, 1992
  • * The Flying Change, Louisiana State University Press, 1986
  • The Children of Herakles, Oxford University Press, 1982
  • The Water of Light: A Miscellany in Honor of Brewster Ghiselen, University of Utah Press, 1976
  • An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards, University of Utah Press, 1974
  • Poetry: Points of Departure, Winthrop, 1974
  • Breakings, Solo Press, 1969
  • The Horse Show at Midnight and An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards, Louisiana State University Press, 1965