...In the one, the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the...naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real. And real in this sense they have been to every human being who, from whatever source of delusion, has...

...nightmare. In the opening sections of 'The Ancient Mariner', Coleridge remains true to his professed aim of 'the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions' of 'every human being who, from whatever source of delusion, has at any time believed himself under...