A Benediction opens the first section, Spleen and Ideal, of this 1857 poetry collection.
Its preface addresses the reader with the lines "You know, hypocrite reader, this sensitive creature / – brother reader – my likeness – my twin." Dedicated to "The perfect magician of French letters," poet Théophile Gautier, it contains such works as Abel and Cain and Litanies to Satan in the section called Revolt. It also contains such poems as Dance of Death and Parisian Dream in the section Parisian Tableaux. A Benediction opens the first section, Spleen and Ideal, of this 1857 poetry collection. FTP, identify this greatest compilation of Charles Baudelaire.
Its preface addresses the reader with the lines "You know, hypocrite reader, this sensitive creature
{Les Fleurs du Mal} or The {Flowers of Evil}