 Renaissance scholars such as William Salesbury and John Davies brought humanist ideals from English universities when they returned to Wales.While in 1588 William Morgan became the first person to translate the Bible into Welsh, from Greek and Hebrew.From the 16th century onwards the proliferation of the 'free-metre' verse became the most important development in Welsh poetry, but from the middle of the 17th century a host of imported accentual metres from England became very popular.