艾略特的早期诗歌创作,主要指1922年《荒原》发表之前的诗歌创作。艾略特这个时期的诗歌创作,主要接受以法国波德莱尔为代表的象征派的影响。艾略特本人曾披露过。他开始写诗的时候,无论在英国或美国,没有一个诗人可以堪称为楷模。1908年12月,他有幸碰到了阿瑟·西蒙斯的著作《文学中的象征主义》一书。开始接触韩波、拉法格,马拉美等法国象征主义诗人。他在1930年《准则》杂志发表的文章中承认:“西蒙斯的这 Eliot’s early poetry, mainly refers to the 1922 “Wasteland” before the publication of poetry. Eliot’s poetry during this period mainly embraces the influence of the symbolism represented by Baudelaire in France. Elliott himself disclosed. When he began to write poetry, no poet, no matter in England or the United States, could be described as a model. In December 1908, he was fortunate enough to meet Arthur Simmons’s book Symbolism in Literature. Began to contact Han Bo, Lafarge, Malawi and other French symbolism poets. In an article published in the 1930 Guidelines, he admitted: "This is Simmons