普遍信仰(Doxa)在本文中,我将要对T.S.艾略特(T.S.Eliot)的批评理论所造成的某些结论做一番重新的审视。众所周知,艾略特对我们的文学史做了一种重新评价:他对密尔顿(Milton)以来的浪漫主义诗人和维多利亚时代诗人评价甚低;而为17世纪的“玄学派”诗人(the metaphysical poets)翻案,肯定其诗歌价值。艾略特重新定义经典的意义在于,其在20世纪前半叶的英国和美国,引发并形成了具有重要意义的文学教学法(new literary pedago- Universal Faith (Doxa) In this article, I will revisit some of the conclusions that result from T.S.Eliot’s theory of criticism. It is well-known that Eliot re-evaluated our literary history: he rated the romantic poets and Victorian poets since Milton as very low; and for the 17th century “metaphysical” poets (the metaphysical poets) turned over the case, affirmed its poetry value. The significance of Eliot’s redefinition of the classics was that it sparked and formed the important literary pedago-pedagogy in Britain and the United States in the first half of the twentieth century,