The following year , he published `` A Wrong Turning in American Poetry '' , an essay in which he argued that the vast majority of American poetry from 1917 to 1963 was lacking in soul and `` inwardness '' as a result of a focus on impersonality and an objectifying , intellectual view of the world that Bly believed was instigated by the Modernists and formed the aesthetic of most post-World War II American poetry .
The following year , he published `` A Wrong Turning in American Poetry '' , an essay .