When their idea reappeared for its fulfilment phantasy and imagery had temporarily worn themselves out, and the richer language made simplicity possible and adequate for poetry.
There are other directions in which the classical revival influenced writing that need not detain us here.

The attempt to transplant classical metres into English verse which was the concern of a little group of authors who called themselves the Areopagus came to no more success than a similar and contemporary attempt did in France.

An earlier and more lasting result of the influence of the classics on new ways of thinking is the _Utopia_ of Sir Thomas More, based on Plato's _Republic_, and followed by similar attempts on the part of other authors, of which the most notable are Harrington's _Oceana_ and Bacon's _New Atlantis_.

In one way or another the rediscovery of Plato proved the most valuable part of the Renaissance's gift from Greece.

The doctrines of the Symposium coloured in Italy the writings of Castiglione and Mirandula.