朱东润先生著《中国文学批评史大纲》1944年出版于重庆开明书店,虽然此前已经有郭绍虞先生《中国文学批评史》(上卷)和罗根泽先生《中国文学批评史》的出版,但都仅涉及唐以前的部分,完整地勾勒出从上古到清季文学批评史的专著,朱书是第一部。今人多将郭、朱、罗三家视为中国文学批评史学科的奠基学者。朱先生早年有良好的旧学训练,又留学英国,系统介绍西方的文学观念与研究方法,曾长期教授英语与英国文学,专 Mr. Zhu Dongrun’s “Outline of the History of Chinese Literary Criticism” was published in Chongqing Kaiming Bookstore in 1944. Although Guo Shaoyu’s “History of Chinese Literary Criticism” (the first volume) and Mr. Luo Genze’s “History of Chinese Literary Criticism” have been published before, The previous part of Tang dynasty completely outlined the monographs from the antiquity to the literary criticism history in the Qing Dynasty. Zhu Shu was the first one. Today, many people think of Guo, Zhu and Luo as the founding scholars of the history of Chinese literary criticism. Mr. Zhu had a good old school training in his early years and studied in the UK. He systematically introduced western literary concepts and research methods. He had long taught English and English literature