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

波自认《莉》他怪诞小说中的上品，现在大分读者认为不过病态自怜，身，浮华怪诞的大杂烩而已。