Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche

"Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche" is the personal web log of John V. Fleming, the Louis W. Fairchild Professor of English and Comparative Literature emeritus at Princeton University. It continues in its title and its spirit his one-time newspaper column in The Daily Princetonian. As a general rule a new post is mounted every Wednesday morning (EST).

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Death and the Poet

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Phyllis Wheatley               The dark has returned.   Daylight Saving Time ended three weeks ago, and although the chang...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Wynkyn de Worde

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Device of Wynkyn de Worde, heir of William Caxton In the beginning was the Word …So begins the gospel of John, whose opening sentence procla...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Rebecca West

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  This essay will be, eventually, an homage to one of the great English writers of the twentieth century, Rebecca West.   ...
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Bears, Literary and Local

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  Ursa minor Princetoniensis   I followed a career as an English professor, so that I naturally have spent a certain amoun...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Whither Albion?

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  The calamity that struck Joan down some months ago has naturally presented us with practical as well as spiritual diffic...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Renan Remembers

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Ernest Renan   My life at present involves much to-ing, the logical consequence of which is an equal amount of fro-ing.   And as my own not ...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Lepanto

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   Last week’s post was about a novel.   This week’s will be about a poem.   While I don’t intend to move sequentially through all the lit...
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John V. Fleming, the Louis W. Fairchild Professor of Literature emeritus at Princeton University, retired after a long teaching career in 2006. He and his wife Joan continue to live in Princeton. The Flemings have three adult children, six delightful grandchildren, and lives that mysteriously continue to be busy. He can be reached at jfleming@princeton.edu.
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