托马斯·德·昆西作为英国的浪漫主义散文家和文学批评家,将文学划分为知识文学和力量文学并倾向后者;周作人作为中国著名的文学家和新文学运动主将之一,借用前人的提法将文学划分为“载道”和“言志”亦倾向后者。人们常认为这两个两分法是相当的。然而它们虽相似,却亦有不同。研究表明,他们所处的时代及文化影响了他们的文学思想,体现在他们对文学的理解、态度的既相似又有不同,这就是他们两分观的相似与不同。 As a romantic essayist and literary critic of Britain, Thomas de Quincey divides literature into knowledge literature and power literature and tends to the latter. Zhou Zuoren, as one of the famous Chinese writers and master of the new literature movement, The formulation of literature divides literature into “carriage ” and “dialect ” also tend to the latter. People often think that these two dichotomies are equivalent. However, although they are similar, they are different. The research shows that their time and culture have influenced their literary thinking, reflected in their similarities and differences in their understandings and attitudes toward literature, which are the similarities and differences between their dichotomies.