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, January 26, 2011

What Art is All About, by George

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One of the principal interests in my scholarly career has been the interpretation of literary and pictorial allegory , a concept bro...
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Serendipity

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Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford Once in a classroom discussion we came upon the name of Walpole, and I found that only one of the...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

The Mystery of Iniquity: Mysterious Still

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My intention for “Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche” is amusement decorated, in an occasional lucky week, with a thin gloss of edification. ...
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Stare, indecisus

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Saint Pancras LONDON Stationers' Hall The confirmation hearings for the last Princeton alumnus (Samuel Alito) to be appo...
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

The Disavowal

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broad expanses of white The vow has fallen on hard times. About the only “vows” left are those in the phrase “marriage vows,” t...
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Christmas among the Disorganized

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Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed (John 20:29) Last year I managed a reasonably thoughtful Christmas blog...
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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 ...
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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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