Clare records that it was 'a very old custom among villagers in
summer time to stick a piece of greensward full of field flowers
and place it as an ornament in their cottages which ornaments are
called Midsummer Cushions.' This 'cottage custom'suggested the
title to him for this collection. The texts of the poems are those
which Clare himself wanted to publish in 1832, but for which he
could not find a sufficient number of subscribers. Almost a third
of the book's 391 poems were published for the first time when this
collection first appeared in 1978. These poems, edited by Anne
Tibble, a Yorkshire-born scholar and biographer of John Clare,
finally cement the poet's long-deserved reputation as our foremost
naturalist poet of the English countryside.
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