Text Study:Background Information When she was 13,her father published privately what she called her“great epic(史诗)”， "The Battle of Marathon".All her life she suffered from poor health and perhaps in some measure accounted for her great sympathy for human misery. She has been known chiefly for her sonnet- sequence,Sonnet from the Portuguese(葡萄牙十 四行诗)(1850)，love poems dedicated to her husband,which contain very subtle(细腻的) sentiments Text Study: Background Information When she was 13, her father published privately what she called her “great epic(史诗)”, “The Battle of Marathon”. All her life she suffered from poor health and perhaps in some measure accounted for her great sympathy for human misery. She has been known chiefly for her sonnet￾sequence, Sonnet from the Portuguese (葡萄牙十 四行诗) (1850), love poems dedicated to her husband, which contain very subtle(细腻的) sentiments