About the author
Tu An was a Chinese translator and poet. Public information about him is limited, and details of his life have not been systematically documented, yet the eleven works held in the collection show his long commitment to translating foreign poetry. His translations cover Shakespeare's sonnets, selected poems of Keats, Shakespeare's narrative and lyric poetry, an anthology of English poetry across the ages, and selected English and American children's poems, ranging from classic lyric and narrative verse to poetry for young readers. His style values rhythm and concision, seeking readability in Chinese while preserving the original poetic form, and he has had a lasting influence on the reception of English poetry in China. He also wrote an autobiography, Lucky to Be Born at the Right Time, which records his personal and literary life and offers first-hand insight into his approach to translation.
Written (11)
Rating 4.1★ Born at the Right Time: A Memoir by Tu An 屠岸 / 李晋西 / 何启治 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 This book is Tu An's calm and measured narration of past events in the literary world and of the old friends and acquaintances of years gone by. Looki… Rating 4.4★ Shakespeare's Narrative Poetry, Lyric Poetry, and Drama William Shakespeare / 屠岸 Northern Literature and Art Publishing House (Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe) · 2021 Shakespeare's long narrative poems comprise five works: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, A Lover's Complaint, The Phoenix and the Turtle, and Th… Rating 3.9★ Selected American Poems 安妮·布雷兹特里特 / 屠岸 Northern Literature and Art Publishing House (Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe) · 2021 American poetry occupies a distinctive place in American literature, and readers with an interest in foreign literature cannot afford to overlook it. … Rating 4.6★ Shakespeare's Sonnets William Shakespeare / 屠岸 Northern Literature and Art Publishing House (Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe) · 2020 Composed between roughly 1590 and 1598, these poems display consummate structural and linguistic craft, and each stands as an aesthetic achievement in… Rating 4.6★ Selected Poems of Keats 约翰·济慈 / 屠岸 Northern Literature and Art Publishing House (Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe) · 2020 The English texts on which this translation of Selected Poems of Keats is based are taken from The Poetical Works of John Keats, edited by H. W. Garro… Rating 4.2★ Selected British Poems Through the Ages (Volume I) 杰弗里·乔叟 / 屠岸 Northern Literature and Art Publishing House (Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe) · 2020 English poetry occupies a special place in English literature, and readers interested in foreign literature cannot afford to miss it. Mr. Tu An has st… Rating 4.1★ Selected British and American Children's Poems 罗伯特·路易斯·斯蒂文森 / 屠岸 Northern Literature and Art Publishing House (Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe) · 2020 This book comprises two parts: A Child's Garden of Verses and A Child's Book of Poems. The poems display an extraordinary precision in the author's ad… Rating 4.1★ Selected British Poems Through the Ages (Volume II) 托马斯·胡德 / 屠岸 Northern Literature and Art Publishing House (Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe) · 2020 English poetry occupies a special place in English literature, and any reader interested in foreign literature cannot afford to skip it. Mr. Tu An has… Rating 4.4★ Shakespeare's Sonnets William Shakespeare / 屠岸 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2016 Sonnet entered England in the early 16th century. With the spread of Renaissance thought across Europe, it soon became one of the most popular poetic … Rating 4.2★ The Complete Poems of Shakespeare: Sonnets (Aurora Poetry Series · Classic Translation Series) William Shakespeare / 屠岸 Northern Literature and Art Publishing House (Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe) · 2016 The Sonnets is Shakespeare's most important collection of poems. Since the late eighteenth century, Shakespeare's sonnets have aroused great interest … Rating 4.1★ The Complete Poems of Shakespeare: Long Narrative Poems (Aurora Poetry Series · Classic Translation Series) William Shakespeare / 屠岸 Northern Literature and Art Publishing House (Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe) · 2016 Shakespeare's Narrative Poems: The Complete Poetry (Aurora Poetry Series · Classic Translation Collection) is part of the Aurora Poetry Series · Class…Publishers
Shanghai Translation Publishing HouseNorthern Literature and Art Publishing House (Beifang Wenyi Chubanshe)SDX Joint Publishing Company