according to the 15th-century "vetus catalogus" of fellows of merton, strode himself was a "poeta nobilis." john leland and john bale confirm this, but none of strode's poems have survived. however, professor gollancz suggested that the "phantasma radulphi" attributed to strode in the vetus catalogus could be the 14th-century elegiac poem "the pearl", but this has found no support from later scholars and, on the basis of the poem's dialect, seems very unlikely.