马修·阿诺德在《批评在目前的作用》一文中,谈到批评与创作的关系问题,认为批评可以与创作一样是高级的才能,人也能从中得到真正的快乐,由于现代的生活世界是复杂的,现代诗人要写好诗,必须有批评能力,否则,写出的诗就贫乏、没有生命力。此观点值得商榷。因为批评与创作各有自己的媒介,前者更依赖思考,后者更依赖想象,思维方式不同,没有必要要求所有的创作者都有丰富的批评才能。 Matthew Arnold, in his article “Criticism at Its Current Role”, talks about the relationship between criticism and creation, arguing that criticism can be as advanced as creation, and that people can derive real happiness from it because the modern world of life is Complex, modern poets want to write poetry, must have the ability to criticize, otherwise, the poetry written on the poor, no vitality. This view is questionable. Because criticism and creation have their own media, the former relies more on thinking, the latter on imagination and different ways of thinking, and there is no need to require that all creators have rich criticism.