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 26, 2015

The Mayor and the Mammary Menace

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  Times Square patriot: discredit , Google Images The Big Apple is in crisis, but fortunately Mayor Bill de Blasio is on the cas...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Allegorical Advantage

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“When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive, and you see...
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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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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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