艾略特站在反浪漫主义的立场,对文学传统和作家个人才能的问题进行了深入思考,他反对个人情感流溢、重视文学传统的观点在学界广有影响。而美国的布鲁姆却在文本“细读”中深切感受到传统经典的压迫性影响,这种影响给后人一种焦虑的心态,让后人想尽千方百计去跟前辈文坛巨擘作殊死的较量。当布鲁姆以“影响的焦虑”作为“一种诗歌理论”时,当他为“误读”规划“图示”时,当他历数传统名家、描述“西方正典”时,整个文学研究界都为其革命性的传统观侧目。通过清理从艾略特到布鲁姆的传统观,本文认为,我们当然应该尊重传统、敬畏传统,但切不可将传统视为僵死的铁板一块。传统是一种动态的有机整体,时时都在进行自我调适,以开放性的胸襟容纳后世的精品佳作,但它更应成为创新的源泉和动力,更应成为一种创新的机制。 Eliot stood in an anti-romantic standpoint, thinking deeply about literary traditions and the writer’s personal talents. He opposed the idea that personal emotions overflowed and attention to literary traditions had a wide influence in academia. Broome in the United States, however, deeply felt the oppressive influence of the classic canon in the text “Fine Reading”, which gives the descendants an anxious state of mind so that the descendants try their best to make every effort with the giant literary giant Desperate contest. When Bloom named “a poetic theory ” as “influential anxiety ” when he “misunderstood ” planning “icon ”, Western canon ", the entire literature research community has its revolutionary tradition side. By cleaning up the traditional view from Eliot to Broome, this article argues that we should certainly respect tradition and respect traditions, but we must not regard tradition as a dead-iron piece. Tradition is a dynamic and organic whole that is self-regulating from time to time. With open-mindedness, it is a masterpiece of future generations. However, it should become the source and driving force of innovation and should become an innovative mechanism.