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, June 12, 2019

A Short Story by John O'Hara

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John O'Hara (1905-1970) The short story is not an American invention, but American writers at least since the time of Poe ha...
Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Sir Gawain ad Quadratum

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On Monday I awoke to a beautiful spring day, and with intellectual prospects to match it.   My project for the next little bit is...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Memorial Day

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On Memorial Day this year we enjoyed a delightful pot-luck supper organized by an old, generous, and endlessly hospitable friend, who had...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Israel Potter

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Spasms of virtue have been a curse in my life, sort of like the grand mal seizures suffered by epileptics, only we don’t call them...
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

How I Became a Famous Scholar

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 D. D. Home Getting a Rise Out of His Aucience One of my two academic children, the anthropological one in Montreal, recently ap...
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Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Menacing Medievalists

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A very large convention of medievalists is about to convene in Kalamazoo, MI; and in this regard our newspaper of record on Sunday pu...
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Three Against One

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I have on my shelves an incomplete set (seven of the eight volumes), rather garishly bound in a bright blue buckram with lavis...
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John V. Fleming
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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