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, July 14, 2010

Great Men, Great Books

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Dante begins one of the cantos of the Inferno by congratulating the Florentines for achievements so remarkable as to gain for their city ...
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Perils of Relaxation

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Forget Colonel Mustard: Joan did it in the back yard with the hammock I was a pretty laid-back, easy-going kind of a lad. My mother claime...
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

What I Did Last Summer: an abecedarian post

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The Castellans of 2010 So rapidly and so vastly has the empire of WiFi expanded throughout southern Europe since my last trip through those ...
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Hands across the Water

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I am past the midpoint of my brief sojourn in Paris. The last week went by in a blur. Of such blurs there are several genres: the travel...
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Scholar Gypsy

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Nil admirari prope res est una, Numici, solaque quae possit facere et seruare beatum. Horace, Epist . I, vi. ...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Bloguiste en vacances

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Emergent circumstances now emerge, leaving me in search of the right analogy. I find it, naturally, in academic life. Oxf...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

History Is For the Birds

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"My heart in hiding stirred for a bird"....But what bird? I spent a rather wakeful night in New York, made somewhat more tolerabl...
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John V. Fleming
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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