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, October 14, 2020

The Donald, the Dex, and Me

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                Fitzgerald’s famous story “The Rich Boy” begins with two oft-quoted sentences: “Let me tell you about ...
Wednesday, October 7, 2020

The Gospel Truth

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    The motto of Harvard University, to be found   boldly divided into trinitarian folios and mounted on an heraldic shiel...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Courting Disaster

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                Give no thought to the morrow.   Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.   We have that on the high...
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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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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