# Dedication explained — Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

> Chapter companion for Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley.

## What happens

Phillis Wheatley respectfully dedicates her collection of poems to the Right Honourable the Countess of Huntingdon, expressing her humility and devotion as a servant.

## Character check-ins

### Phillis Wheatley

The author and dedicating servant, inscribing her poems to the Countess of Huntingdon.

## Key lines

> To the Right Honourable the Countess of Huntingdon , The following Poems Are most respectfully Inscribed, By her much obliged, Very humble, And devoted Servant, Phillis Wheatley. Boston, June 12, 1771 .

Phillis Wheatley, as a humble and devoted servant, respectfully dedicates these poems to the Countess of Huntingdon.

_This dedication establishes the patron relationship and the formal tone of the work._

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