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, January 13, 2016

Stately Home Hopping

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  Glamis Castle Among the high points of a recent cinematic rampage, during which I saw more first-run films in a fortnight tha...
Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Literary Mastication

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One thing leads to another.   I had the occasion in my last post to mention the ancient grammarian Macrobius in his capacity ...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Dreams

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  King Croesus of Lydia, faulty interpreter                I had a vivid and disturbing dream last night.   It was of the kind ...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Merry Christmas, 2015

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            I want to wish a Merry Christmas to my entire readership and indeed to the conceivably even larger whole of huma...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

The Wilson Legacy

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Two of my recent essays (one on the title “Master,” the other concerning Woodrow Wilson) attracted many more readers than usual.   I of...
Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Murder and the Media

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I suppose that if journalism is an art, and if art imitates life, art is perforce a pretty grim business these days.   My last tw...
Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Wilson: the Nomen and the Omen

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When in 1969 Robert Goheen sent me down to Wilcox Hall to as Master of Wilson College he offered a few sage precepts of a genera...
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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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