在《精致的瓮》的前言中,克林斯·布鲁克斯指出,新批评应当做的是:尽可能细致地体会一首诗作为诗本身要传达的东西。他将诗比喻成精致的瓮,即承认每一首诗都是一件客观、自足、独立的艺术品。布鲁克斯的中心论点在于,读诗时首先要将其作为诗看待,而非作为影射作者写作意图和生活经历的证据,抑或是映出其诞生的历史文化背景的镜子。发现文学作品的真实意义成为新批评式的文学研究方法最重要的--如果不是唯 In the preface to the Exquisite Urn, Collins Brooks pointed out that what the new criticism should do is to understand, as carefully as possible, a poem as something to be conveyed by the poem itself. He compared the poem to a delicate urn, recognizing that every poem is an objective, self-contained and independent artwork. Brooks’s central argument is that reading poetry first treats it as a poem rather than as a mirror that reflects the author’s writing intention and life experience, or reflects the historical and cultural background of its birth. Finding the true meaning of literary works as the most critical of the new critical literary approach - if not the only