"Ligeia", which Poe thought his best grotesque story, is now, for most readers, a jumble of morbid self-pity, diabolism, and gimcrack Gothicism.

波《盖娅》是他怪诞小说中的上品，现在大分读者为不过是病态怜，魔鬼附，怪诞的大杂烩而已。