New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2022. The 37 chapters within consider the partnership through four lenses - the universal, opera and literature, musical and literary forms, and popular music and literature - and touch upon diverse and pertinent themes for our modern times, ranging from misogyny to queerness, racial inequality to the claimed universality of whiteness. This Companion therefore offers an essential resource for all who try to decode the musico-literary exchange.