A Song of Love and Death

Peter Conrad was born in Australia and since 1973 has taught English literature at Christ Church, Oxford. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton University and Williams College and has contributed essays and reviews to leading periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic. Among his books are Romantic Opera and Literary Form, Television: the Medium and Its Manners, and The Everyman History of English Literature. He divides his time between Oxford, London, and New York,