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 8, 2020

The Queen's Speech

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  Essays beginning with the author’s profession of faith, either political or religious, are often pretty bad, but what I am undertak...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Literary Pests

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In connection with a writing assignment, I have been reading a good deal of “plague literature.”   There is quite a lot of it, and ...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

The Tissue Issue

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Medieval philosophers and moralists in the Platonic tradition used a strange Latin phrase to describe what they took to be the diso...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Taking It Lying Down

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It was only when I myself became an English professor that I came to appreciate the serious confusion that most Americans entertain c...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2020

The Sobieski Stuarts

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Title page of the V estiarium Scoticum (1822) of John Sobieski Stuart A few years ago I published in one of these essays a deliciou...
Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Super Tuesday?

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Super Tuesday, indeed.   Do people still say “Harrummph” as they did in the old cartoons?   If not, we need to do something about revivin...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Spiritual Ableism

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Chaucer's Pardoner We just attended the annual Princeton Alumni Day, which provides the opportunity to see numerous old student...
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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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