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, September 5, 2012

Transition: the Autumnal

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                Abraham Janssen: Personification of Autumn             Today is distinctly transitional.  For starters...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Flemingiana

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             Statue of John le Fleming, Mayor of Southampton (saec. 14), on the old city walls. (Sculptor: Anthony Griffiths; photo...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Misspeaking

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William Archibald Spooner        Eminent for the Spoken Word Todd Akin The verb misspeak does not appear in my desk ...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Enough to Make One Veep

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James Gillray on political campaigners (1795).  Plus ça change... Political journalism, though specializing in the vacu...
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

The Jubilation at Red Hook

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 [Photo: Allen Murabayashi ] The Dutch heritage of old New York is memorialized in a dwindling number of socially prominent fa...
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Delightful Distractions

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  John Henry Putney Fleming at the age of thirteen hours My usual blogging routine, along with such lesser distractions as th...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

A Binding Proposal

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Finding topics for weekly blog posts should not be much of a problem in a country in which political folly is continuous, pub...
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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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