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 ...

If Heinrich Heine, the author of “Die Lorelei,” could have witnessed this sinister farce, he would have been appalled but not surprised. Heine was passionately devoted to German language, ...