"George Sainton Kaye Butterworth," according to Emily Ezust at www.lieder.net.

The Song Literature classes from my university studies, were classical/art-song focused, and yet of course there were composers, and pieces, that bridged the divide between that focus and traditional song. It was in those classes that my colleagues and I were introduced to the music of George Butterworth.

Our instructor thought it worthwhile to take the Shropshire Lad text, "Is my team ploughing," and have us listen to the versions by both Butterworth and Vaughan Williams, to compare and contrast the two; if you know both composers' versions, you know there is a huge difference between the two settings of the same lyric.

Butterworth also set to music Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Shelley, in addition to Housman.