[5] The verses are from _Geständnisse_, No. 125 in Pissin's collection of Loeben's poems.
[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.