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, January 4, 2023

Joseph Ratzinger, Scholar

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  Joseph Ratzinger, better known to most people as Pope Benedict XVI, died in Rome on the last day of 2022 at the age of 95.   He will be ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Boston Adventure

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Jean Stafford   Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit : “Man proposes but God disposes”.   This daunting aphorism, which became...
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Season's Greetings

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Two-color job-printing blocks, 1920s; C & P clamshell   While I hope that these blog essays are usually about somethi...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Medieval Orientalism

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    I rarely compare myself to Ovid, and must presume that most of my readers share that virtue with me.   But I must ...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Making Sense of the Senses

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Cluny Museum tapestries: taste   During their recent trip to Paris, my spouse and our elder son Richard...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Death of the Author

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Roland Barthes (d. 1980) My chosen career as a professional student of old authors got off to a rocky start in the 1960s...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Mozart, Among Others

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 The venue for the Princeton University Concerts is the Richardson Auditorium of Alexander Hall.   This delightful building, a roofed arena ...
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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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