The exploration over the literary estheticism has undergone a developmental process. In the same way, in the time of utilitarianism, the esthetic value is considered as an entertainment, in the phase of romanticism it is as expressing mental delight and spiritual pleasure, and in the modern maturity of literary art the literary value is taken as artistic value, thus outdoing recreation and pleasure. So the literary estheticism may just as well extend to represent valuing ugliness instead of valuing beauty with delight or pleasure. And this is the modern value of literary estheticism.