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Anna Visscher
Dutch poet
Anna Visscher (born Feb. 2?, 1583, Amsterdam, Neth.ādied Dec. 6, 1651, Alkmaar) was a Dutch poet and daughter of the Renaissance man of letters Roemer Visscher. She was admired and praised in verse by such poets as Constantijn Huygens and Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft.
Anna Visscherās poetry is rather stiff and impersonal; she wrote for the most part sonnets and lofliederen, cleverly devised odes to important personages. She spent 12 years (1602ā14) translating Cent emblĆØmes Christiens (āA Hundred Christian Emblemsā) by Georgette Montenay (first published 1854), but her main contribution to Dutch literature was her publication of a revised and improved version of Roemer Visscherās Sinnepoppen (āEmblemsā) in 1640.
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