In a message dated 17/05/99 14:10:42 GMT Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes:
>I was interested to read about the background to the Phantom
>Rickshaw, and certainly Kipling was influence by Edgar Allen Poe.
>Kipling does do a good line in ghost stories (Madonna of the Trenches
>is by far the most striking for me at least). Is there anything
>written on this aspect of his work?
Try Chapter 7 of The Art Of Rudyard Kipling, JMS Tompkins, Methuen 1959
Chapter 3 of Kipling's Hidden Narratives, Sandra Kemp, Basil blackwell, 1988
Chapter 7 of Kipling's Myths of Love and Death, Nora Crook,Macmillan 1989
The last is specifically about A Madonna of the Trenches.
Yours Roger Ayers
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