吴宓先生是一位在文学创作和中外文学及比较文学研究和教学领域中具有多方面杰出成就的学者,我们以前对他却了解得非常不够。他的著作长期被湮没,没有整理出版,我们这一代人中认真读过吴宓著作的人很少,更不必说仔细的钻研。因此对他的学术思想,我们的认识不但模糊不清,而且有不少误解和偏见,仿佛他在中国现代文学史和学术史上真的并没有什么地位,可以略而不提,甚且接受、沿袭既有的一些观点,就先人为主地把他看作新文化运动的反对派,等等。文化大革命中,吴宓先生和许多老学者一 Mr. Wu Mi is a scholar with many outstanding achievements in literary creation, Chinese and foreign literature and comparative literature research and teaching. We have not known enough about him before. His writings have long been obliterated, and there is no orderly publication. Few, if not many, of the people in our generation who have read Wu’s writings seriously, Therefore, our understanding of his academic thinking is not only ambiguous, but also has many misunderstandings and prejudices. It seems that he really has no place in the history of modern Chinese literature and academic history. He can make some omissions and even accept it. Follow some of the existing points of view, look upon the ancestors as the opposition to the New Culture Movement, and so on. During the Cultural Revolution, Wu Mi and many old scholars one