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Title page of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, West=oestlicher Divan (Stuttgart: Cotta, 1819). Hagen 1819 D, though with the uncorrected misprints in the body of the text. The engraved frontispiece, in Arabic, reads: "The Eastern Divan by the Western Author," reflecting Goethe's concept of a broad and cross-cultural "world literature" that was the possession of all humanity.