Though largely unknown to anglophone readers, Anna Bijns is recognized as one of the most important writers to publish in Dutch in the sixteenth century. Renowned during her lifetime for her significant poetic skill and strong opposition to Protestantism, her first published book of poetry is also one of the earliest printed polemics against Luther in the Netherlands. Her surviving poems address a variety of themes including love, theology, misogyny, classical and humanistic literature, and sixteenth-century politics. In addition to her three printed poetry albums (1528, 1548, and 1567) which were also issued in Latin translations, hundreds of additional poems survive only in manuscript.