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Title in the Peerage of Great Britain
- William Legge, 1st Earl of Dartmouth Earl of Dartmouth is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1711 for William Legge, 2nd Baron Dartmouth.
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Meaning. The title of the poem, ‘To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth’ makes the idea of the poem clear at first hand. It is a eulogy for the Earl of Dartmouth. Throughout this piece, the poet depicts William, Earl of Dartmouth, as a hero as well as a redeemer like Jesus Christ.
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George's son William, the second Baron, notably served as Secretary of State for the Southern Department between 1710 and 1713 and in 1711 was created Viscount Lewisham, in the County of Kent, and Earl of Dartmouth, in the Peerage of Great Britain.
“To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth” As a Representative of Freedom: The poet opens the poem with happiness and jubilation, saying she hails the freedom that has emerged in New England, a part of the United States when it won freedom from the British rule.
Entitled “To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth,” the poem reflects the colonists’ hopes that Dartmouth would be less tyrannical than his predecessor.
Summary. Wheatley, a slave, had met William Legge, the earl of Dartmouth, when she was in England for the publication of her collected poems. She knew him to be a friend of the countess of ...
The first stanza personifies Freedom as a goddess that smiles down on New England because the Earl of Dartmouth is holding the reigns of the colony, a symbol of his sway over the colonies.
To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth. By Phillis Wheatley. Hail, happy day, when, smiling like the morn, Fair Freedom rose New-England to adorn: The northern clime beneath her genial ray, Dartmouth, congratulates thy blissful sway: Elate with hope her race no longer mourns, Each soul expands, each grateful bosom burns,
