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

波自《莉盖娅》是他怪诞小说中的上，大分为不过是病态自怜，魔鬼附身，浮华怪诞的大杂烩而已。