[7] Aside from the reviews, letters, and individual poems reprinted here and there, the following works were accessible to the writer: (1) Das weisse Ross, eine altdeutsche Familienchronik; (2) Die Sonnenkinder, eine Erzählung; (3) Die Perle und die Maiblume, eine Novelle; (4) Cephalus und Procris, ein Drama; (5) Ferdusi; (6) Persiens Ritter, eine Erzählung; (7) Die Zaubernächte am Bosporus, ein romantisches Gedicht; (8) Prinz Floridio, ein Märchen; (9) Leda; eine Erzählung; (10) Weinmärchen; (11) Gesänge.
[8] Eichendorff's relation to Loeben can be studied in the edition of Eichendorff's works by Wilhelm Kusch, Regensburg. Vols. III, X-XIII have already appeared. For a poetization of Loeben, see Ahnung und Gegenwart, chap. xii, pp. 144 ff. For a historical account of Loeben, see Erlebtes, chap. x, pp. 425 ff. It is here that Eichendorff makes Goethe praise Loeben in the foregoing fashion.
[9] There is no positive evidence that Goethe made any such remark. In his Gespräche (Biedermann. V, 270; VI, 198-99) there are two references to Loeben by Goethe; they are favorable but noncommittal as to his poetic ability.
[10] Cf. Die Tagebücher des Gräfen von Platen, Stuttgart, 1900. Under date of August 14, 1824, Platen wrote: "Es enthält viele gute Bemerkungen, wiewohl diese Art Prosa nicht nach meinem Sinne ist." The reference is to Loeben's commentary to Madame de Staëls De l'Allemayne.
[11] Cf. Heinrick von Kleists Berliner Kämpfe, Berlin, 1901, pp. 490-96. The story in question is "Die furchtbare Einladung."
[12] Cf. _Herm. Anders Krüger, Pseudoromantik. Friedrich Kind und der Dresdener Liederkreis. Leipzig. 1904. pp. 144-48. Krüger also discusses Loeben in his Der junge Eichendorff. Leipzig. 1904. pp. 88 and 128.
[13] Cf. Fouqué, Apel. Miltitz. Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Romantik, Leipzig,1908. In a letter to his brother. Fouqué wrote (January 6, 1813): "Ein Dichter, meine ich, ist er allerdings, ein von Gott dazu bestimmter." Fouqué, however, realized Loeben's many weaknesses as a poet, though at Loeben's death he wrote a poem on him praising him as the master of verse technique.
[14] Cf. Kosch's edition of Eichendorff. XIII. 65. Loeben says: "In Weimar war ich im vorigen Winter bei Goethe; er war mir freundlich." The "previous winter" was 1813.
[15] Cf. Kosch's edition, XI, 220. The remark was made in 1807.
[16] Cf. Pissin. p. 25. The incident occurred in 1803 and Herder died in 1804.