Gordon Tyrell set some of John Clare's poems to music

I have some recollection of George Deacon & Marion Ross also setting some of John Clare's work years ago.

The difference being that Deacon knew the tunes Clare himself intended and Tyrrell didn't. The difference shows.

The setting of e.e. cummings's "all in green went my love riding" by Peter Schickele, sung by Joan Baez on her "Baptism" LP, is spectacularly original, albeit rather untraditional sounding.