An 'Intersectional Trainwreck' " Alex Ross On 'The Great Gay Jewish Poetry Brawl Of 1821'
"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 […]