[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 GesprAeche (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 TagebUecher des GrAefen von Platen, Stuttgart, 1900. 
    Under date of August 14, 1824, Platen wrote:  “Es enthAelt viele
    gute Bemerkungen, wiewohl diese Art Prosa nicht nach meinem Sinne
    ist.”  The reference is to Loeben’s commentary to Madame de Staels
    De l’Allemayne.

[11] Cf. Heinrick von Kleists Berliner KAempfe, Berlin, 1901, pp.
    490-96.  The story in question is “Die furchtbare Einladung.”

[12] Cf. Herm.  Anders KrUeger, Pseudoromantik.  Friedrich Kind und der
    Dresdener Liederkreis._ Leipzig. 1904. pp. 144-48.  KrUeger also
    discusses Loeben in his Der junge Eichendorff. Leipzig. 1904.
    pp. 88 and 128.

[13] Cf.  Fouque, Apel.  Miltitz. BeitrAege zur Geschichte der deutschen
    Romantik, Leipzig,1908.  In a letter to his brother.  Fouque wrote
    (January 6, 1813):  “Ein Dichter, meine ich, ist er allerdings, ein
    von Gott dazu bestimmter.”  Fouque, 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.

[17] Cf.  Kosch’s edition, XI, 308.  Lochen himself utterly condemned
    this work later.  See Pissin, pp. 238-39, 267-08.  Pissin gives the
    number of verse and strophe forms on p. 266.

[18] Cf.  Pissin, p. 267.  Uhland made the remark in 1812—­his own most
    fruitful year as a poet.

[19] The story was published in 1817.  The full title is Das weisse
    Ross, eine altdeutsche Familienchronik in sechs und dreissig
    Bildern. It is 160 pages long.