托·斯·艾略特是二十世纪最有影响的英语诗人之一。他的诗和一套文论引发了人们轰轰烈烈的讨论与研究,至今余波未息。然而,我们对艾略特的文学批评理论及其诗歌研究存在着相对独立分析的不足,由此导致了对艾略特作品的片面理解或不理解,甚至误解。该文力图结合艾略特的文论《传统与个人才能》对他的艺术思想和文学批评理论作一些初步的探讨,并联系其早期名诗《杰·阿尔弗瑞得·普鲁弗洛克的情歌》考察其理论与实践的结合。 Tosh Eliot is one of the most influential English poets of the twentieth century. His poems and a set of literary criticism triggered a vigorous discussion and research, so far after all. However, there is a lack of relative independent analysis of Eliot’s theory of literary criticism and his poetry, which leads to one-sided understanding or even misunderstanding of Eliot’s works. Based on Eliot’s literary theory “Tradition and Individual Creativity”, this essay attempts to make some preliminary discussions about his artistic thought and literary criticism theory, and in connection with his early famous poem “Jay Alfred Prufrock Love Song ”to examine the combination of theory and practice.