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 8, 2015

In Search of Saint James--and Tomatoes

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My Easter boutonnière, still going strong The last day of March witnessed the last meeting of our Evergreen Forum seminar ...
Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Imaginary Friends

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            Two of our granddaughters are just now on a fortnight’s school trip to China.   (The only such trip I can remember from ...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Golden Oldies

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Each week I receive a certain amount of email concerning my blog posts.   The messages are mainly encouraging, but I am sometime...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Sleepers

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Starnina's "Thebaid" in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence I am not a reincarnationist, nor a subscriber t...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Weepers

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The Magdalen: walking baths and portable oceans             Richard Crashaw, a Roman Catholic spiritual writer of the first ...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Idols of the Mind

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 You shall not make unto yourself any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Times Memorial

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It’s been a white world around here for the last couple of weeks.    To be sure, we haven’t had the huge snow dumps that hav...
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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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