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, May 14, 2025

Pope Leo XIV

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One of the most famous works of modern literary criticism is Mimesis by Erich Auerbach, first published in its original German in 1942. ...
Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Behrman Award

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  It has been an unusually active week for us geriatrics, so active indeed that it is not easy to identify its high point....
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Gatsby Centennial

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  On Sunday the Friends of the Princeton University Library held its official annual meeting, which was followed by its an...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Happy Easter 2025

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imagine this with the lights off   Writing on the Monday after Easter, I am already reliving in memory the religious and f...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Raise Your Hand

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    Some time ago I wrote a little essay about things and signs, res and signa in Latin, in relation to a little book...
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Civic Virtue

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  Lorenzo de' Medici, "the Magnificent"   Perhaps my title needs a question mark: Civic Virtue?   Or even ...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

The Mess at Columbia

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              It is in a quasi-apologetic spirit that I return to some subjects only recently touched upon.   Like many ot...
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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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