I suppose I was rather suspect of poetry put to music for many years after my O Level Music study pieces included Malcolm Williamson's awful scoring of R L Stevenson's "From a Child's Garden."

Funnily enough, Bellamy's Kipling dragged me back to leaving my position that poetry is written to be read. Also, a good friend who started at our local folk club the same time as me when we were teenagers, the late Keith Emmerson, picked on a few poems from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. I still play his arrangement of The Song of the Ents to this day.