先秦时期的文学观念,虽然是广义的文学观念,但并不能认为就没有文学批评了。我们认为,我国古典文学正是萌芽于这个时期。诚然,在先秦诸子的著作中。我们只看到了些片断的、不成系统的观点,不过值得注意的是当时他们的一些看法,对后来的文学批评理论,却产生了深远的影响,尤其是孔子、孟子和荀子的观点。其中荀子又是被一些文学批评史家们认为是奠 Although the concept of literature in the pre-Qin period was a generalized concept of literature, it can not be said that there is no literary criticism. In our opinion, the classical Chinese literature is very much in its infancy. True, in the writings of the pre-Qin philosophers. We have only seen some fragmentary and unsystematic views. However, it is noteworthy that some of their views at that time had far-reaching repercussions on literary criticism theories, especially those of Confucius, Mencius and Xunzi. Among them, Xunzi was considered by some historians of literary criticism