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[applause] [inaudible conversations] you are watching booktv on cspan2, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. And as booktv continues book tour of the New York Public Library we are now joined by isaac gerwirtz. What do you do here . On curator of the berg collection of english and American Literature. How did you get that position . I worked in the new Public Library in the past. Ive been in the rare book division, was later a curator at Methodist University and downtown at the general theological seminary, st. Marks library. And got a...

That position . Guest i worked in the rare book division, regular curator at the university. Downtown at the general theological center. And a doctorate in renaissance history in colombia. All of that led to my being here host and how long have you been with the New York Public Library . Guest since september of 2000. Host you have brought some things out to show was spirited collection. Guest i have. Well, an enormous collection, about 2,000 manuscripts and tens of thousands of printed items. This is what i like to call the tip of the burke said to speak. Here we have the only surviving manus...

This has the highest authority directly from dunns on manuscripts. You can see changes or differences between the text that is represented here and the transcriptions that were made in the First Edition perpetuated throughout the centuries. For instance in the sonnet all who were tierneys, all those who have been destroyed by this will be resurrected on the day of judgment. And this word dearth was transcribed as death and was only 20th century that it was read correctly and corrected. Host who is john dunn . Guest john dunn was a metaphysical poet from the 17th century. He used wit, philosoph...

You read an when you enter the havana harbor, you find an irish name. That lighthouse was known for many years as the odono lighthouse. Who was this person, odono the man that oversaw the project of the lighthouse in 1844 and he was a governor of cuba from 1843 to 48, but he was a spanish man of irish origin and irish ancestry, a descendant of the chieftan of the ticanelles. He is spanish and irish together. If we look at the history of the irish in cuba, most of the irish to went to cuba in the 18th and 19th centuries arrived from spain, some of them with the Spanish Royal armies; other irish...

Cuba from 1843 to 48, but he was a spanish man of irish origin and irish ancestry, a descendant of the chieftan of the ticanelles. He is spanish and irish together. If we look at the history of the irish in cuba, most of the irish to went to cuba in the 18th and 19th centuries arrived from spain, some of them with the Spanish Royal armies; other irish influx arrived from the u. S. For the construction of railroads used to transport sugar cane to the sugar plantations. That was at the end of the 19th century. And then at the beginning of the 20th century, were talking 1902, 1910, before odono t...