"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《莉盖娅》诞小说中的上品，现在大读者认为不过病态自怜，魔鬼附身，浮诞的大杂烩而已。