作为二十世纪最有影响力的文学批评理论之一,新批评初始于二十世纪二十年代的英国。在二十世纪中叶,新批评理论成为美国文学批评的主流思想,其所提出的文学理论和方法至今仍对文学批评产生着重要影响。作为新批评理论的先驱,艾略特提出了外部权威、内在人格等理论,震撼了整个文学批评界。本文旨在探讨艾略特提出的文学理论及文学批评的标准,以期为更加全面的阐释文学作品提供有益范式。 As one of the most influential theories of literary criticism in the twentieth century, the new criticism began in the United Kingdom in the 1920s. In the middle of the twentieth century, the new critical theory became the mainstream thought of American literary criticism, and the literary theories and methods it has proposed still exert an important influence on literary criticism. As a pioneer of the new theory of criticism, Eliot put forward the theory of external authority and internal personality, shocking the entire literary criticism circles. The purpose of this article is to explore Eliot’s standards of literary theory and literary criticism with a view to providing a useful paradigm for a more comprehensive interpretation of literary works.