His plays, which were for the most part merely poems in dialogue, fell far below the high dramatic standard of his time and are now almost unread.

Less abstract, more nearly an utterance of personal feeling, was Joseph Warton's Enthusiast, or the Lover of Nature, historically a remarkable poem, which, through its expression of the author's tastes and preferences, indicated briefly some of the most important touchstones of the sentimentalism (videlicet, "romanticism") of the future.

Interpretatione Geneseos; Assertiones Theologicæ, Rome, 1554; Poemata, Cologne, 1558this collection often reprinted at Lyons, Antwerp and Tournon, contains 255 epigrams against the heretics, amongst whom he places Erasmus;a poem De Agno Dei; and, lastly, another poem, entitled Echo de Presenti Christianæ Religionis Calamitate, which has been sometimes cited as an example of a great difficulté vaincue.

It is precisely these poems which have most widely spread and most firmly established Wieland's fame.

It is conceived in the general spirit of the ballads but is simpler, more purely a poem of sentiment, than either "Christabel" or "The Ancient Mariner," and makes no use of the supernatural.