Who was the poem dedicated to individual genereally identified as the Fair Youth of Shakespeare's sonnets about?
Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton:  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. The Rape of Lucrece: The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia.
Lucretia