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 3, 2014

Murder into Art

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A passage in Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield has become a familiar adage: “I love everything that is old; old friends, old times...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

The Admirable Crichton

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    He knew it all           On the assumption that my views of the Ferguson grand jury or the resignation of the Secretary of...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Penelope Fitzgerald, Morrisian

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The current number of the New York Review of Books* has an important article about the English novelist Penelope Fitzgerald.   A ma...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Madisonian Musings

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         The American Philosophical Society, with atmospherics          I had a most enjoyable experience this past weeke...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Ruby's Hallowe'en

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The most effective licensing procedure is self-licensing, so I am granting myself permission to indulge in an unapologetic essay ...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Texting Women

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  Richard de Fournival, a learned French author of the fourteenth century, says in the preface to one of his works that there ar...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

On the Death of David Greenglass

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Ethel Rosenberg with her brother, David Greenglass, in better days David Greenglass died last summer at the age of 92, but the ...
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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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