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 11, 2018

A Brief Account of Recent Travels

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  The library, Trinity College, Cambridge              Just before we left Paris there appeared in one of the national daily...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Bambi's Cousin

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For Americans of my generation the Walt Disney film Bambi (1942!) was a significant life experience.   It was one of the earli...
Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Library Crawl

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  Tenth-century glossed psalter in the British Library In ten days’ time we leave for a long-scheduled European trip full of bo...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Springs of Helicon

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Thomas Gray (1716-1771)  Among the riffs developed by Garrison Keillor for the formerly brilliant “Prairie Home Companion...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

The Countess of Grantham & the Duchess of Sussex

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             There is already so much commentary in the American press about the “Royal Wedding” that I know that my own positiv...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Adulteration of the Adult

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   "The Seven Ages of Man" by William Mulready (1838) I suspect that like many other underemployed Americans I have ...
Sunday, May 6, 2018

Blue & Gray in Black & White

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  I am posting this essay a bit early, as circumstances seem unlikely to allow me to keep to the more usual schedule.   So ...
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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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