One work in this collection asks the reader to "read me, learn to love me" and "pity me, elsereceive my curses".
One work in this collection asks the reader to "read me, learn to love me" and "pity me, elsereceive my curses". The speaker of its final entry calls Time the "fatal foe to man" and wishes to findnot "Heaven or Hell" but "something new" at the end of his titular "Voyage". Its preface, whichidentifies boredom as the worst of all vices and addresses the "hypocrite reader, my likeness, mybrother," is "To the (*) Reader". This collection, dedicated to Theophile Gautier, includes such poems as"The Litanies of Satan", "The Albatross", and "A Voyage to Cythera", and is divided into sections like"Wine" and "Revolt". For 10 points, name this symbolist poetry collection that opens with the section"Spleen and Ideal", a work of Charles Baudelaire.
One work in this collection asks the reader to "read me, learn to love me" and "pity me, elsereceive my curses".
Les Fleurs du mal [accept The Flowers of Evil or other reasonable translations]