Lawes

Henry L. Lawes (1596-1662) English composer. He was a Gentleman of Charles I's Chapel Royal, and wrote music for Milton's masque of Comus, the songs for Herrick's Hesperides, and made numerous settings of poems by contemporary poets.

--EP, Ezra Pound and Music, ed. R. Murray Schafer, New Directions

It is only too easy to ruin fine words with a poor setting, but it is quite possible to preserve their beauty, and even possible to enhance them; to emphasise their speech-beauty by a very slight exaggeration of the sound-quality, keeping in each case the quality of each word sound but, as it were, dwelling on it, holding it to the ear, as a good poet might conceivably do in composing it....
Lawes has done this in setting some poems by Waller. Since that date Engish musicians and poets have, I believe, kept themselves rigidly segregate...

-- EP