Paul Green's war songs
Subtitle: a southern poet's history of the Great War, 1917-1920
By: edited and introduced by John Herbert Roper ; foreword by Sam Ragan.
Contributors: Roper, John Herbert, 1948-
Publisher: North Carolina Wesleyan College Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Rocky Mount, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Poetry.; Soldiers' writings, American.; War poetry, American.; Soldiers -- Poetry.
Genres: Poetry.
Other titles: War songs.
Description: Between 1917 and 1919, often literally with the sound of the battlefield guns in his ears, Paul Green wrote poems about the enormity of World War I. These poems he kept in five separate manuscript collections, and, with only a few exceptions, he did not publish them or even talk much about them during his long career.

Recently acquisitioned in the Paul Green Papers in the Southern Historical Collection of the Library of the University of North Carolina and published here for the first time, Paul Green's war poems provide another chapter to the literary responses to World War I, "the war to end all wars" and the transforming event usually credited, or blamed, for closing off one cultural era and replacing it with a self-conscious Modernism. In particular, Green's poems provide considerable insight into the ways that the twentieth-century rural culture of eastern North Carolina was reshaped by the experiences of that war.

Historian John Herbert Roper contributes an introduction, notes, and an interpretive essay that provide a cultural and biographical background for these poems.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.