Charles Baudelaire

(1821-1867)

Baudelaire (Portrait by Félix Nadar courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Multimedia

See also "Listen..."for recordings of selected poems by Baudelaire from a December 2007 reading by Susan Rubin Suleiman, C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.

Les Fleurs du Mal (1861) Spleen et Idéal
	Au Lecteur	(fleursdumal.org))
	L'Albatros	(ViveVoix)
	Parfum exotique	(fleursdumal.org)
	La Chevelure	(fleursdumal.org)
	Une Charogne	(fleursdumal.org)
	Harmonie du soir	(fleursdumal.org)
	L'Invitation au voyage	(fleursdumal.org)
	Chant d'automne	(fleursdumal.org)
	Moesta et errabunda	(fleursdumal.org))
	Spleen II (J'ai plus de souvenirs...)	(fleursdumal.org))
	Spleen IV (Quand le ciel bas et lourd...)	(fleursdumal.org)
	L'Horloge	(fleursdumal.org)

Tableaux Parisiens
	Le Cygne	(fleursdumal.org)
	A une passante	(fleursdumal.org)
	Le Crépuscule du soir	(fleursdumal.org)
	Le Crépuscule du matin	(fleursdumal.org)

Le Vin
	Le Vin des amants	(ViveVoix)
Fleurs du mal
	L'Amour et le crâne	(fleursdumal.org)
La Mort
	Le Voyage	(fleursdumal.org)

Harvard Libraries

1857 Les Fleurs du Mal - First edition, first issue of Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, including the 6 poems (nos. 20, 21, 39, 80, 81, 87) for which the work was suppressed on 20 Aug. 1857.

1861 Les Fleurs du Mal - Second edition of the 1861 republication of Fleurs du Mal with thirty-five new poems and a new section entitled "Tableaux Parisiens." It still lacked the six poems censored from the 1857 edition.

Collections Elsewhere

Other Resources

fleursdumal.org - Comprehensive site on Baudelaire and his poetry, including images and sound, maintained by Supervert.

Vive Voix - anthologie sonore de poésie - A repertoire of sound recordings of poetry in French, established and maintained by Wheaton College, Hopton, MA.