 His adaptation of a monodrama by August von Kotzebue "Stari mladoženja i košarice" was published in 1832.The only preserved original dramatic work of his is a dramatic poem "Duh" ("Spirit", 1832), while the play "Veronika od Desenic", started in 1831, is today is only known by its title.His first work in the Štokavian dialect was published in 1835 in the first issue of "Danica ilirska", where he continued to publish Illyrian patriotic and later love poetry ("Sila ljubavi", 1837 and others), foreshadowing romantic Neopetrarchism.