He considered his own greatest work not to be one of his gothic tales but rather his epic prose poem "Eureka," in which he expounded his own personal view of the cosmographical nature of the universe.
واعتبر أن عمله الأعظم ليس واحدًا من حكاياته القوطية ولكن بدلاً من ذلك قصيدته النثرية الملحمية "يوريكا" وفيها شرح رأيه الشخصي عن طبيعة الكون.