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, March 12, 2025

Dulce et decorum?

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The proud tower               This has been a week when a kind of unplanned and unexpected serendipity of coherence has em...
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Mother Tongue

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  I post this essay on Ash Wednesday animated by a strange feeling more like unease than penitence.   A good deal has been...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Alumni Day at Princeton

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              I am an alumnus of Princeton University and have been for more than sixty years, though for most of those ye...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Birds and Words

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  Last Saturday night we attended a choice concert presented by a small group called the Princeton Singers.   I suppose th...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Shadowy Goundhog

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    This is the year that I have had to admit quite openly that I no longer enjoy winter—if I ever did in the first plac...
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Rear Window

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  I’ve been coming through a rather bad patch.   For more than two weeks I was dogged by some bronchial infection that gre...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Henry Frowde, OUP

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    I am emerging from a bad week during which some nasty virus drove me to my bedroom.   The actual bedroom is surrounded by books, one of ...
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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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