Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: Peri and Corsi brought in the poet Ottavio Rinuccini to write a text , and the result , Dafne , though nowadays thought to be a long way from anything the Greeks would have recognized , is seen as the first work in a new form , opera .
Simplified: Peri and Corsi asked the poet Ottavio Rinuccini to write some words for them and together they produced the opera Dafne .