Weltliteraturn.
A literature of all nations and peoples; a universal literature.
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1827 J. W. von Goethe Gespräche mit Eckermann (1836) I. 325 National-Literatur will jetzt nicht viel sagen, die Epoche der Welt-Literatur ist an der Zeit.]
1913 E. Pound Let. 7 Nov. (1971) 24 Until ‘we’ accept what I've been insisting on for a decade, i.e., a universal standard which pays no attention to time or country—a Weltlitteratur standard—there is no hope.
1962 Listener 6 Sept. 358/2 It gives a new meaning to Goethe's dream of Weltliteratur.
1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 May 526/2 A truism, that Pound and Eliot were rebels against American provincialism and proponents of a Weltliteratur.
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