While several of Heliade's contributions to literature have been considered to be of low importance, many others, above all his Romantic poem "Zburătorul", are hailed as major accomplishments. "Zburătorul", borrowing from Romanian mythology its main character (the eponymous "incubus"-like being who visits nubile girls at night) also serves to depict the atmosphere of a Wallachian village from that period. According to George Călinescu, the poem's value partly relies on its depiction of lust through the girls' eyes: "lacking the rages of Sappho and Phaedra. The puberty crisis is explained through mythology and cured through magic".