Theodore Ziolkowski, German Romanticism and Its Institutions, Princeton University Press, 1992, 454 pages, p. 132-134 (ISBN0691015236).
Edmund Spevack, Charles Follen's Search for Nationality and Freedom: Germany and America, 1796-1840, Harvard University Press, 1997, 312 pages, p. 109-112 (ISBN0674110110).
Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, The Cambridge History of German Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2000, 632 pages, p. 264-265 (ISBN0521785731).
E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (présentation de Joachim Neugroschel), Penguin Classics, 2007, 240 pages, p. XVII-XVIII (ISBN0143104837).