"Wordsworth wanted the Mariner ???to have a character and a profession,??? perhaps would have liked him to be a gardener, or a butler, with ???an excellent character!??? In fact, the love of the supernatural was then at so low an ebb that a certain Mr. Marshall ???went to sleep while the ???Ancient Mariner??? was reading,??? and the book was mainly bought by seafaring men, deceived by the title, an" . . . .