内容摘要：叶公超先生是我国最早系统评述T.S.艾略特的学者。叶公超先生认为，艾略特写诗主张维持中国用典的风格，将历代流传下来的观念联合起来，汇成文化源流。诗人写诗不仅表现个人才气，而且展示和代表整个文化。在《爱略特的诗》一文中，叶公超先生反驳了艾略特在创作《荒原》前后的诗歌作品中蕴含着不同态度的观点，讨论了把艾略特诗歌创作与宗教信仰混为一谈的错误观点，并且指出了艾略特通过隐喻手法营造一种“古今错综的意识”。笔者对叶公超先生的观点进行了综述和进一步的评论。

关键词：T.S.艾略特;叶公超;态度;宗教信仰;用典

基金项目：2015年国家社科基金项目《比较视野下的赵萝蕤汉译〈荒原〉研究》（15BWW013）阶段性研究成果。

作者简介：黄宗英，北京联合大学应用文理学院教授，主要从事英美诗歌教学与研究。

Abstract： Ye Gongchao has been considered the earliest Chinese scholar who published commentary on T. S. Eliots poetry in China. He thought that T. S. Eliot liked to follow the style of Chinese allusions in poetic composition， bringing together all traditional concepts into a flow of cultural source. A poet not only shows his own talent in his poetry but also exibits and represents a whole culture. In his essay “T. S. Eliots Poetry”， Ye Gongchao refutes the idea that Eliot holds a different view of life in his poetry before and after his composition of The Waste Land， rebuts the idea of lumping together Eliots poetic creation and his religious belief， and points out that one of the charms of Eliots poetry is his use of metaphors to create a “consciousness of mixing the pastness with the presentness” in his poetry. Ye Gongchaos ideas about T.S. Eliots poetry and poetic writing have been summarized and further explored here in this essay.

Key words： T.S. Eliot; Ye Gongcao; attitude; religious belief; allusion

Author： Huang Zongying is professor of English at College of Applied Arts and Science， Beijing Union University （Beijing 100191， China）. His research field is British and American poetry. E-mail： hzy@buu.edu.cn

众所周知，叶公超先生为赵萝蕤先生1937年初版汉译艾略特《荒原》一书写了一篇“十分精彩的‘序”（赵萝蕤239）。根据赵萝蕤先生《怀念叶公超老师》一文中的回忆，当她请叶公超先生写序时，叶公超先生说：“要不要提你几句？”赵萝蕤先生回答说：“那就不必了”。后来，赵萝蕤先生觉得自己当时“年少无知，高傲得很”，后悔没有请叶公超先生在这篇序言里对自己的译笔做一些点评。用赵萝蕤先生自己话说：“现在想起来多么愚蠢，得他给我提些意见，不管是好是坏，该多么有‘价值呢”（赵萝蕤239）。赵萝蕤先生不仅记得她的老师叶公超先生曾经……