In the fourth issue of Social Science Research in 2021, Zhao Yuan pointed out that in today's era of theoretical deconstruction, re-exploring the origin of "New Criticism" and its impact on future generations will help to better see the overall trend, problems and challenges of western critical theory. British and American "New Criticism" rose in the 1920s and 1930s, reached its peak in the 1940s and 1950s, and gradually declined under the impact of various new critical theories from Europe (especially France) in the late 1950s. However, it is too early to say that "New Criticism" is dead. Some viewpoints and methods of "New Criticism" were generally accepted by later critical theories and turned into the basic elements of all later critical theories, so that future generations did not even realize that those viewpoints and methods were the heritage of "New Criticism".