Who was the poem dedicated to individual genereally identified as the Fair Youth of Shakespeare's sonnets about?
Lucretia
Title: Sonnet 86
Passage: Sonnet 86 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.  It is the final poem of the Rival Poet subsection of the Fair Youth sonnets in which Shakespeare writes about an unnamed young man and a rival poet competing for the youth's attention.  While the exact date of its composition is unknown, scholars generally agree that the Rival Poet series was written between 1598 and 1600 and published along with the rest of the sonnets in the 1609 Quarto.
Title: Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton
Passage: 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.
Title: The Rape of Lucrece
Passage: The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia.  In his previous narrative poem, "Venus and Adonis" (1593), Shakespeare had included a dedicatory letter to his patron, the Earl of Southampton, in which he promised to write a "graver work".  Accordingly, "The Rape of Lucrece" has a serious tone throughout.
The Rape of Lucrece Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton