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reader as private consumer. R. F. Jones encountered this
attitude in the early sixteenth century in England:
The refinement and adornement of the mother tongue
were themselves considered the goal of literature. In other
words, literature was considered instrumental to
language, not language to literature. Writers are more
frequently praised for what they have done for the
medium of their expression than for the intrinsic value of
their compositions. . . . (81)
Print had the effect of purifying Latin out of existence.
* Many great scholars have toiled at the study of the
printed English vernacular. So rich is the field that any kind of
approach is arbitrarily selective. Writing on “Tyndale and the