books.google.co.uk - Baudelaire ascribed exceptional importance to the arrangement of Les Fleurs du mal. His book, he said, constituted "a perfect whole," which he had arranged according to a preconceived plan. One of his earliest readers, the novelist and critic Barbey d'Aurevilly, spoke of a "secret architecture" and "a...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Poetry_and_Moral_Dialectic.html?id=JRvmSCDZ2dMC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePoetry and Moral Dialectic