Note 4 — Chapter X · THE MENTIMETER TESTS (continued 3)
Reading edition
The Best Version in each set is selected from the writings of recognized poets:
Set I
William Wordsworth in “She Dwelt Among.”
Set II
Agnes Millay in “My Tavern.”
Set III
Percy Bysshe Shelley in “To——”
Set IV
Algernon Charles Swinburne in “Étude Réaliste.”
Set V
Edward Coote Pinkney in “Health.”
Set VI
James Thompson in “Sunday Up the River.”
Mr. Earl Hudelson contributed the Middle and Poorest Versions for Set II. One of the present authors is responsible for the mutilated forms of the other selections. A much more scientific and accurate instrument for measuring poetic discrimination is being developed by Prof. Allan Abbott and one of the present authors.