"They shut me up in prose" : introduction -- "The dazzled soul / In her unfurnished rooms" : Dickinson and the lyric self -- "A nearness to tremendousness" : Dickinson and metonymy -- "Who goes to dine must take his feast" : Dickinson and her audience -- "He that of repetition ismost master" : Stevens and the lyric self -- "To picnic in the ruins that we leave" : Stevens and metonymy -- "A world impossible for poets": Stevens and his audience -- "So summer comes in the end to these few stains" : conclusion