Sordello is a poet, and so are many others in the poems.

Moreover, he treats continually of himself as a poet, and of the many criticisms on his work.
All through this work on the arts, the theory of which we have written appears continuously.

It emerges fully in the close of _Easter-Day_.

It is carefully wrought into poems like _Abt Vogler_ and _A Grammarian's Funeral_, in which the pursuit of grammar is conceived of as the pursuit of an art.

It is introduced by the way in the midst of subjects belonging to the art of painting, as in _Old Pictures in Florence_ and _Andrea del Sarto_.