李健吾的文学批评很善于从比较的视野来评价作品的渊源与得失,表达他对影响与创造问题的建设性意见。他认为外来影响是不可避免的,是必须的,作家要正视这些影响,从中得到有益的启示。相对而言李健吾在审度西方文学时更关注新文学本身的发展。在比较的视野中他所提及的丰盈的人性、艺术的自觉等都是以西方的文学规范来导引、匡正新文学的发展,使新文学的发展尽可能地接近世界文学的水平,进入世界文学的领域。 Li Jianwu’s literary criticism is good at assessing the origin and gains and losses of his work from a comparative perspective and expressing his constructive opinions on the issues of influence and creation. He believes that external influences are inevitable and necessary, and writers should face up to these influences and obtain beneficial enlightenment from them. In contrast, Li Jianwu paid more attention to the development of new literature itself while examining Western literature. In a comparative perspective, he refers to abundance of human nature and artistic consciousness and so on. All these are based on Western literary norms to guide and correct the development of new literature so that the development of new literature approaches the level of world literature as much as possible, The field of world literature.