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, December 15, 2010

Memoirs from the Fourth Estate

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As most of you know, this blog originated many years ago as an actual print op ed column in the Daily Princetonian . I was the first ...
Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Poles Apart--Also Polls and Pols

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Daniel Wasserman (Boston Globe ) I awoke yesterday morning to the news that Barack Obama had cav...
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Weighing one's words

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The public scales in the Dillon gymnasium as viewed from my locker WHAT'S THE MISSING LINK? Photographic evidence of the shifting of te...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Precious Life-Blood--or Dead Hand?

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George Eliot (æt. 30, 1849/1850) by Louis-François d'Albert Durade I have been home now for ten days, just about the time needed to...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

The Eighty Percent Solution

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Robert Goheen (1919-2008) “Home,” says Frost, “is the place that when you go there, they have to take you in.” There are other slightly mo...
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Transitional Man

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big transition: Camões has gone to his long house Life is pretty much like essay writing. Once you’re into them, the pa...
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Home Thoughts from Abroad

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American Library in Paris: alleged site of bloguiste's alleged work My “mystery” retreat was Kandersteg in the Swiss canton of Bern, one...
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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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