英国现代派诗人兼文学理论家艾略特(T.S.Eliot)在其著名的《传统与个人才能》一文中探讨了传统对现代文学创作的影响,他认为“传统是不断调整逐步完善的体系”、“传统具有历时和共时性”、“个人在传统的制约下发挥才能”等。艾略特探讨这些关系旨在阐释文学作品的创作与传统文学文化的密切关系。二者有着千丝万缕的联系,密不可分,任何时候的文学创作都不能独立于传 British modernist poet and literary theorist Eliot (TSEliot) explores the influence of tradition on the creation of modern literature in his famous article entitled “Tradition and Individuality.” He believes that “tradition is a system of constant adjustment and gradual improvement. ”,“ Tradition has diachronic and synchronicity ”,“ Individuals can exert their talents under traditional constraints ”and so on. Elliott explores these relationships to explain the close relationship between the creation of literary works and the traditional literary culture. Both have inextricably linked, inextricably linked, any time of literary creation can not be independent