[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. [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. [20] An idea as to the lack of action in this story can be derived from the following statement by Otto (pp. 127-28), the brave hero: "Was man Schicksale zu nennen pflegt, habe ich wenige gehabt, aber erfahren habe ich dennoch viel und mehr als mancher durch seine glänzenden Schicksale erfahren mag: nämlich die Führungen der ewigen Liebe habe ich erfahren, die keinen verlässt. und alles herrlich hinausfuhrt." And then Siegenot, the other hero, says that this is very true--whereupon they embrace each other. [21] The story was first published In Urania: Taschenbuch für Damen auf das Jahr 1818. pp. 305-37. [22] Aside from the poems in Pissin's collection in the _D.L.D. des 18. u. 19. Jahr._, Ignaz Hub's _Deutschlands Balladen- und Romanzen-Dichter_, Karlsruhe, 1845, contains: (1) "Romanze von der weissen Rose," (2) "Der Tanz mit dem Tode," (3) "Der Bergknapp," (4) "Das Schwanenlied." "Loreley" is also reprinted here, with modifications for the worse. "Schau', Schiffer, schau' nicht hinauf," is certainly not an improvement on Loeben's "Lieb Knabe, sieh' nicht hinauf," [23] The following are common forms: "Nez," "zwey," "versteken," "Sfären," "Saffo," "Stralenboten," "Abendrothen." "Uebermuth," and so on, though the regular forms, except in the case of "Saffo," also occur.