Re 16th century England:
Men, and sometimes women, wrote for
the amusement of themselves and their friends, not for publication. Their verses were handed round, copied
out into the manuscript books, of which many survive in public and private libraries, and admired in a small
circle.
Ward & Waller, eds. The
Cambridge History of English Literature, vol. III: Renascence and
Reformation (1908), p. 180
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