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, April 17, 2019

The Great Church Burns

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With unaccustomed efficiency I was already well advanced with a blog essay for the week when news began to arrive about the fire at...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Peasant-Savant

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Déguignet family, circa 1875 Fewer pleasures are more direct or immediate than the pleasure of good conversation.   We all know what...
Wednesday, April 3, 2019

April Poets

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We have entered April, a month of poetic significances, but also of deceptions.   “April is the cruelest month,” writes Eliot ...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Report on the Report of the Report

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            Some years ago a convergence of curious circumstances led to me to write a book about some literary classics of the Cold War....
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

The College Admissions Mess

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Two circumstances conspire to make this an unusually long essay.  First, it is D-Day, D being the Roman numeral for 500 and this being th...
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Troping the Light Fantastic

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The Venerable Bede, bagging a trope  American political discourse has arrived at what used to be called a pretty pass.   Though f...
Wednesday, March 6, 2019

A Patriot in Song

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Professor Francis James Child (1825-1896) The sense of the word “hero”—once limited mainly to famous warriors, explorers, and se...
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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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