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, September 23, 2020

Instrumental Agreement

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              “All the instruments agree..,”   It’s actually part of a line from an Auden poem, his famous elegy written i...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Church Militant

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                  Some years ago, while researching a book concerning the literature of the Cold War, I...
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Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Conversations

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Walter Savage Landor (1775-1865)             One of the things that keeps living languages alive is their accommodation of linguist...
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Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Is the Left Right?

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            People who lack a scrupulous attitude toward history are prone to trivialize it with faulty analogies, a tendency especi...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2020

The Puzzle of Fra Angelico

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 Friar John of Fiesole, O. P., believed to be a self-portrait             If you are so locked down that the only social event i...
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Brown Revolution

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    A benevolence of Blackwells              Reading books on-line is uncongenial to me, but it becomes necessa...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Election Jitters

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Dixiecrat delegates walk out of the 1948 Democratic Convention             Every week or so I have a telephone conversation wi...
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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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