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, October 8, 2025

The Go-Between

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    I do have a real topic in mind, but getting to it involves some probably annoying professorial stuff by way of preli...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

The Man in the Red Coat

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                                          Pozzi in his prime (by Sargent)   The “man in the red coat” is, depending on how you look at it...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Blanco White

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                                                 The Rev. Joseph Blanco White   Several older editions of the Oxford Book ...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Mourning in America

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  I seem to be among the rather few Americans not able to claim that I knew Charlie Kirk well or admired him greatly.   In...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Midway

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well defended birds, Midway atoll   Our eldest granddaughter, Sophia, is about half way through her pregnancy, and I am allowing my mind ...
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Watery Places

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  Perhaps the best-known character in Chaucer--her name at least will ring a bell for most of my readers--is the Wife of B...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Thomas Kuhn

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Professor Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996)   Our household, meaning mainly myself, is in a state of transition.   That word, transition, is an i...
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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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