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, November 1, 2023

Autumn Chill

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Autumn, serious autumn, arrived here on Friday. By “serious autumn” I perhaps mean “ambivalent autumn,” Keats’s season of mellow fruitf...

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Constitutional Review

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For many reasons, I am loath to write on political topics. The chief reason is that I am not an expert on polit...

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Sit and Weep

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After a week of screaming headlines and an inundation of appalling, indeed frightening newspaper articles, gruesome phot...

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

The Reading Group

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Youth is wasted on the young. Oscar Wilde is supposed to have said that, and I suppose he probably did. But it’s one...

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Tea Party

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I don’t believe that I had ever downed a cup of hot tea before I set foot on English soil, by which time I was already a...

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

So Long to Solon

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Newspapers need “lead” stories, and it is often difficult to assess whether they are really important stories or simp...

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Descent of the Dove

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Piero della Francesca (15th c.) The two blog posts I mounted from Salernes were achieved only u...

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John V. Fleming: 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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