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, July 13, 2016

Solace by Anecdote

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For those who love their country, a group that I believe includes the majority of my compatriots, we have fallen upon hard times.   The...
Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Beaumes-de-Venise

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It is the natural tendency of the elderly to remember events long distant in time, and their prerogative to remember them with ap...
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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Bligh Bond and the Brexit

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  Bligh Bond A funny thing happened to me as I sat down to write my contribution for the rapidly expanding Brexit Anthology of ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Doing Horace One Better

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            Among a thousand unforgettable images in the Divine Comedy is one in the nineteenth canto of the Inferno in which ...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Finding a Good Book

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                       My blog essays vary considerably in their lack of ambition, but mainly readers get a snapshot of my Tues...
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Gilded Cages

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a ransomer arrives at the sponging-house ( Vanity Fair , vol. 2, cap. xviii) A fabulously wealthy Middle Eastern gold merchant, R...
Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Adolf Trump?

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There was what I thought a very good article in yesterday’s Times , “ The West’s Weimar Moment ” by Jochen Bittner, one of the editors ...
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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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