美国20世纪五十至六十年代通常被认为是美国诗坛的转折时期。五十年代中期之前,追随艾略特的美国新批评派基本上是美国诗歌以及文学批评的主流,五十年代中期之后,以威廉斯·卡洛斯·威廉斯、阿伦·金斯堡、罗伯特·罗威尔为代表后现代主义诗歌逐渐占据历史舞台。本文结合当时的社会与时代背景,厘清这一转折时期的代表人物及关键事件,从而更好把握美国现当代诗歌的走向。 The United States from the 1950s to the 1960s was generally considered a turning point in the American poetry circle. Before the mid-1950s, the new American critics following Eliot were basically the mainstream of American poetry and literary criticism. After the mid-1950s, Williams, Williams, Allen Ginsberg, · Lowell gradually occupied the stage of history as the representative of postmodernist poetry. Combined with the current social and historical background, this article tries to clarify the representative figures and key events in this turning point so as to better grasp the trend of American contemporary poetry.