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, March 12, 2014

Lady Anne Finds Her Match

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Lady Anne Conway, about 1660, a detail from the domestic portrait by Samuel van Hoogstraaten I suppose that most scholars of lit...
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Democracy Downgrade?

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Yesterday was slightly exceptional in that I managed to embarrass myself twice before the light of dawn.   I did not begin the day by con...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Famous Writers I Have Known

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   Famous writer James Magnuson, author of Famous Writers I Have Known From what you read in the papers you might reasonab...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

The Weather Up Here

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                                Our view to the south                         Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton ...
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

In a Brown Study

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When I first encountered the phrase brown study in British authors of the early twentieth century I was ignorant of its meaning bu...
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Thursday, February 6, 2014

A Medievalist Looks at Inequality

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Life is always the same in all periods: namely, comfortable for the rich and less comfortable for the poor, their discomfort being ...

Bloguiste Iced Out

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I was unable to post my essay on "A Medievalist Looks at Inequality" yesterday.  I spent about half the day either waiting for a t...
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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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