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, April 9, 2014

An Operatic Insight

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Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît pas.  Blaise Pascal   That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into th...
Wednesday, April 2, 2014

A Memorable April Fish

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            The snipe ( gallinago gallinago )           Yesterday was April Fool’s Day, and I managed to get by it unscathed thoug...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

New at Ole Miss

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On Thursday of last week I was in Oxford, Mississippi, where I delivered a lecture in the English Department at the University of Mis...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Readers or Viewers

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Recently I read somewhere an interesting article about readers and non-readers.   The distinction was not between literates and illit...
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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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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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