“In the shouty Valhalla of pointlessly destructive literary feuds, a place of honor must go to the verbal duel between the poets Heinrich Heine and August von Platen, which amused and disgusted the German literary world in 1829. Two outsiders — a Jew and a homosexual — resorted to crude stereotypes as they attempted to eject each other from an establishment that might rather have dispensed with both of them.” – The New Yorker
