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, August 12, 2015

Ethel Rosenberg

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I thought that last Thursday’s televised bear-baiting event, amusingly misnamed a “debate,” in which numerous Republican candidates t...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Ascetical Summer

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     Onward!           It is high summer, the beginning of August—a fact with different meanings for different people.   I thin...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Agricola

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  I grew up mainly in the country and entirely in what my father called the United States, meaning somewhere certainly west of ...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Saint Augustine at Downton Abbey

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For my scholarly writing last week I needed to consult very briefly a Latin text of Augustine’s Confessions.   My library is well...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Killing Mockingbirds

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               To Kill a Mockingbird , published in 1960, had already achieved a kind of canonical status by the autumn of 1963, when I...
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Bernie Rocks

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  Warren VT, 4 July 2015: Senator Sanders in the Ship of State            I have just returned from a delightful family vacat...
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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Vacation

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one impulse from a vernal wood... There is a difference between a nuclear family and a nuclear-powered one.   We have a brood of...
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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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