This is the first book to examine how Romantic writers transformed poetic collections to reach new audiences. In a series of case studies, Michael Gamer shows Romantic poets to be fundamentally social authors: working closely with booksellers, intimately involved in literary production, and resolutely concerned with current readers even as they presented themselves as disinterested artists writing for posterity. Exploding the myth of Romantic poets as naive, unworldly, or unconcerned with the practical aspects of literary production, this study shows them instead to be engaged with intellectual property, profit and loss, and the power of reprinting to reshape literary reputation. Gamer offers a fresh perspective on how we think about poetic revision, placing it between aesthetic and economic registers and foregrounding the centrality of poetic collections rather than individual poems to the construction of literary careers. "Michael Gamer's study is a rare thing: an original analysis that should influence how we teach and how we read Romantic poetry." -- Will Bowers, Times Literary Supplement 10 July 2018 Michael Gamer explodes the myth of the unworldly Romantic poet, showing writers' interest in public presence, and profit and loss. Thanks for your interest; reviews available (thus far) at  The Times Literary Supplement (10 July 2018): ; European Romantic Review 29 (2018):499-503; The Wordsworth Circle 49(2018), 214-16; Modern Philology (Summer 2018): ; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 57 (Autumn 2017), 891; Studies in Romanticism 56:2 (Summer2017), 285-8; Romantic Circles Book Chat ,September 2017, URL:rc.umd.edu/reviews-blog/romantic-circles-bookchat-michael-gamers-romanticism-self-canonization-and-business. Michael Gamer is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Romanticism and the Gothic: Genre, Reception, and Canon Formation (Cambridge, 2000) and Associate Editor of the journal EIR: Essays in Romanticism.