I roto i te 1598 te cleric me te kaituhi Francis Meres tohua ia i roto i te rōpū o Ingarihi kaituhi rite "te tino pai" i roto i te takaro, me te aitua. Ko te kaituhi o te Parnassus tākaro i St John College, Cambridge, tau ia ki Chaucer, Gower, ko Spenser. I roto i te Folio Tuatahi, ka karanga Ben Jonson Shakespeare te "Te wairua o te tau, te whakamoemiti, te oaoa, te miharo o to tatou atamira", ahakoa i kōrero ia i tetahi atu wahi e "i hiahia Shakespeare toi". I waenganui i te Whakaora o te rangatiratanga i roto i 1660 me te mutunga o te rau tau 17, whakaaro tawhito i roto i te ahua.
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