Abstract. Bringmann, Guerzhoy, Ono, and the author developed an EichlerShimura theory for weakly holomorphic modular forms by studying associated period polynomials. Here we include the Eisenstein series in this theory.Classically, the periods of a weight k (k ≥ 4 will always denote an even integer) cusp form f = l≥1 a f (l)q l (q := e 2πiτ with τ = x + iy ∈ C with y > 0) on Γ := SL 2 (Z) are given byThese periods appear in the coefficients of the period polynomial of f defined by