Comparison Between Poetics Of T·S·Eliot And Wu Mi

T·S·Eliot and Wu Mi are great poets and scholars of poetics in China and the West in 20 century, who play extremely important role in the development of both Chinese and Western literature. They successively studied with Irving Babbit, the master of New Humanism, thus imprinted by the thoughts of New Humanism. However, their points of view differ from each other, especially in the issue of "Romanticism". All along, the academia paid little attention on it. In the perspective of "Romanticism", this thesis makes an overall comparison between the poetry points of Wu Mi and Eliot, and respectively discusses the similarities and differences of their poetics at the background of Chinese and Western culture.Wu Mi received traditional education when he was young, and held a moderate view on the world. Thus, there came his poetic assertion, the combination of romance and classical art. In this assertion, he on one hand approved the sincere emotion of romance. On the other hand, he objectively figured out the defect of romantic art. His opinion on those romantic poets and their works is also quite objective. Different from Wu Mi, Eliot rose the anti-romance to a climax, following the development of western literature history. And he proposed the famous theory-non-personalization, which totally negated not only the romantic poets, but also the romantic arts. Not only that, he criticism to the romantic poets is extremely fierce. All in all, their different attitudes towards romanticism can be traded back to their different poetic ideal, which of Wu Mi is'three boundaries', while which of Eliot is integrity of sensibility. They respectively put forward their own poetic opinion, and meanwhile demonstrated them through works, reaching a high peak in both art and creation.