In my 5,400-word review essay "Herman Melville's Centennial Poem Clarel (1876) and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I compare and contrast the competing views of Melville's Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, and of ...

In my 4,700-word review essay "Hershel Parker on Herman Melville, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I discuss three works by Parker: (1) his 1992 first volume of his massive two-volume biography of Melville (from 1819 to 1851), ...

In my 8,400-word review essay "Harold Bloom (Ph.D. in English, Yale, 1955) v. Walter J. Ong (Ph.D. in English, Harvard, 1955)," I briefly review the life and work of Harold Bloom and Walter J. Ong. As part of Ong's lengthy ...

My 3,600-word essay "Matthew Fox's 2020 Reissued Book on Thomas Aquinas, and Walter J. Ong's Thought" is about the Reverend Dr. Matthew Fox's 1992 550-page book Sheer Joy: [Four] Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation ...

In my 23,000-word review essay "Scott Newstok's 2020 Book about Renaissance Education and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I use Scott Newstok's book How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education as a ...