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Stephen Tapscott’s American Beauty: William Carlos Williams and the Modernist Whitman is more readable than most books of academic literary criticism, but it does not altogether avoid the endemic pitfalls and annoyances of the breed. Where on earth outside academic literary criticism would you ever encounter the word “propaedeutic”? It’s as if there are certain cult words and terms — “chthonic” is another doozie that comes to mind — without which the Modern Language Association will not grant ad...