艾略特历史意识的理论探析

Theoretical Discuss on Eliot's Sense of History

艾略特最重要的诗歌理论论文《传统与个人才能》对传统的概念和个人创新才能进行了重新评价,确立了一个在传统权威下的稳定的有序的文学秩序,论证了传统与个人创新不是不可兼容的。艾略特的传统诗观在现代主义风潮中提出,反对极端的自由主义和个人主义的诗观对当时诗坛的"纠偏"作用是巨大的。

＂Tradition and the individual ability＂, Eliot＇ s most important poetry theoretical papers, re-evaluates the concept of tradition and the individual innovative ability, establishes a stable and ordered literary order under the traditional authority, argues that it can not be incompatible between tradition and personal innovation. Eliot＇s traditional poetry concept was put forward in the wave of modernism. His poetry concept against extreme liberalism and individualism played enormous functions to the ＂correction＂ of at that time.