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 11, 2024

The Cotswold Dovers

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    The subjects of this essay came into my mind by way of a train of thought that began with the beautiful villages of ...
Wednesday, September 4, 2024

R. L. Stevenson, Man of Letters

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  Maybe other people who love   poetry, as I do, find the “situation” of poetry in America today somewhat paradoxical.   ...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Grounds for Sculpture

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  Last Friday we rounded out Joan’s birthday week in a delightful way.   The “we” was a group of four.   In addition to Jo...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Forty-Two

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  I have been thinking back to some of the political and cultural events of the early decades of my professional career.   In retrospect...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Two Irish Neighbors

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               Robert Boyle   The animating premise of Tom Stoppard’s brilliant play Travesties depends upon the strange ...
Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Edification by Example

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    Traditionally the twin aims of poetry, as expressed in Horace’s Art of Poetry are to instruct and to please.   He s...
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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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