Who was the poem dedicated to individual genereally identified as the Fair Youth of Shakespeare's sonnets about?
Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (6 October 1573 – 10 November 1624), (pronunciation uncertain: "Rezley", "Rizely" (archaic), (present-day) and have been suggested), was the only son of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, and Mary Browne, daughter of Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu. Shakespeare's two narrative poems, "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece", were dedicated to Southampton, who is generally identified as the Fair Youth of Shakespeare's Sonnets.
Sorrows of Werther Sorrows of Werther is a satirical poem by William Makepeace Thackeray written in response to the enormous success of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther".