本书共收录了艾略特在1919年至1936年期间18篇评论文章和演讲稿。凭借其深厚的文学蕴涵和冷静敏锐的洞察力，这名出色的批评家对英国文学史上具有时代重要性的代表诗人进行了承前启后的审视，同时也表达了自己对文学批评的意义和手法的独到见解。(This book collects 18 review articles and speeches of Eliot written from 1919 to 1936. Relying on his profound literary implication and calm and acute insight, this excellent critic made an examination linking past and future for the representative poets with importance of the era in the history of English literature and expressed his insightful views on the meaning and methods of literary criticism.)