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, October 29, 2025

Whither Albion?

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  The calamity that struck Joan down some months ago has naturally presented us with practical as well as spiritual diffic...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Renan Remembers

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Ernest Renan   My life at present involves much to-ing, the logical consequence of which is an equal amount of fro-ing.   And as my own not ...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Lepanto

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   Last week’s post was about a novel.   This week’s will be about a poem.   While I don’t intend to move sequentially through all the lit...
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

The Go-Between

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    I do have a real topic in mind, but getting to it involves some probably annoying professorial stuff by way of preli...
Wednesday, October 1, 2025

The Man in the Red Coat

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                                          Pozzi in his prime (by Sargent)   The “man in the red coat” is, depending on how you look at it...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Blanco White

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                                                 The Rev. Joseph Blanco White   Several older editions of the Oxford Book ...
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Mourning in America

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  I seem to be among the rather few Americans not able to claim that I knew Charlie Kirk well or admired him greatly.   In...
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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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