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 15, 2025

Los Angeles, Burning

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    On Saturday our excellent friend Frank drove us into New York to visit the Sienese painting exhibition at the Metrop...
Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Words and Things

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Costa Arms  Many of the most stimulating books I have ever read were written more than a millennium ago, but in thinking ...
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

New France & New Year

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Christ Church Cathedral, Montreal               Primo , our heartiest New Year greeting to all.   We have just returned fr...
Monday, December 23, 2024

Christmas Greetings

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Lukas van Leyden      “ A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds , adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”  ...
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Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Urn Burial

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    Joan is a member of a club in town called the “Old Guard,” a name perhaps suggesting the age but not necessarily the...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Human Nature

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  Two weeks ago I published a little piece about Boethius.   I had been stimulated to do so by the announcement of a forth...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Academic Palms

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              As I have now written about eight hundred weekly posts, I have to forgive myself for forgetting most of them...
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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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