T·S·艾略特的诗歌与文论早在上世纪30年代就被译介到我国。对这位雄霸英语文坛达半世纪之久文学大师,其重要诗歌几乎全部译成了汉语。但其影响不亚于诗歌的文论却始终介绍得并不完全。本期刊出的《什么是次要诗歌?》是首次被译为中文的一篇讲稿。在这篇文论中,艾氏着重分析了对诗歌的阅读方法与理解途径,对我们今天的写作而言,依然不失深刻的启迪意义。 T · S · Eliot’s poetry and literary theory as early as the 1930s was translated to our country. The master of the literary world, who dominated the English literary world for nearly half a century, translated almost all of his important poems into Chinese. However, the literary theory whose impact is no less than that of poetry has not always been introduced. This issue of “what is secondary poetry?” Is the first time a Chinese script is translated. In this literary theory, Ai focuses on the analysis of the reading methods and ways of understanding poetry, which is still of profound and enlightening significance to our writing today.