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 25, 2023

The Death of Poetry?

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                         About three weeks ago, an occasional Times op ed writer, Matthew Walter, publ...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Murder They Wrote

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                A particularly violent and shocking mass murder of four Idaho college students has captured the attention of much of the n...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

The Hon. Gent. from Munchausen

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    Were I to write about what has most been on my mind over the past few days I would have to write about the opening ses...
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 ...
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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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