Literary criticism can be approximately summarized into four forms, which are restating and generalizing, feeling and explaining, analyzing and evaluating, as well as promoting and creating.

• 摘要依据内容构成，文学批评大致可分为复述归纳、体悟阐释、分析评判、提升创造四种基本形态，依次相对应的是传播文学信息、丰富作品内容、探讨创作规律、开拓思想空间四重境界。