Michael Drayton

Michael Drayton was a Renaissance/Jacobean sonneteer. He wrote a sonnet sequence called Ideas Mirrour in 1594, but revised it five times, eventually resulting in 1619's Idea. Only twenty of the original fifty-three poems from the former appear in the latter. Drayton was "notoriously sensitive to mockery (D-J 14) and may have adjusted the sequence based in part on Sir John Davies' "Gullinge Sonnets."