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Born in April 9, 1821 / Died in August 31, 1867 / France / French

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WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: BOOKS

  • Salon de 1845 (Paris: Jules Labitte, 1845).
  • Salon de 1846 (Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1846).
  • Le Salon caricatural, anonymous, by Baudelaire, Théodore de Banville, and Auguste Vitu (Paris: Charpentier, 1846).
  • La Fanfarlo (Paris: Bulletin de la Société des gens de lettres, 1847).
  • Les Fleurs du mal (Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857; enlarged edition, 1861); translated by Cyril Scott (London: Elkin Mathews, 1909).
  • Théophile Gautier (Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1859).
  • Les Paradis artificiels, Opium et Haschisch (Paris: Poulet-Malassis et Broise, 1860).
  • Richard Wagner et "Tannhäuser" à Paris (Paris: Dentu, 1861).
  • Les Epaves (Amsterdam: à L'enseigne du Coq, 1865.
  • Oeuvres complètes, 7 volumes, edited by Charles Asselineau and Théodore de Banville (Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1868-1873)—comprises volume 1, Les Fleurs du mal (1868); volume 2, Curiosités esthétiques (1868); volume 3, L'Art romantique (1868); volume 4, Petits poèmes en prose, Les Paradis artificiels (1873); volume 5, Histoires extraordinaires, par Edgar Poe, traduction (1873); volume 6, Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires, par Edgar Poe, traduction (1869); and volume 7, Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym, Eureka, par Edgar Poe, traduction (1870).
  • Petits poèmes en prose, Les Paradis artificiels (Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1869); Petits poèmes en prose republished as Le Spleen de Paris, petits poèmes en prose (Paris: G. Crès & Cie, 1917); Petits poèmes en prose, translated by Arthur Symons as Poems in Prose from Charles Baudelaire (London: Elkin Mathews, 1905).
  • Complément aux Fleurs du mal de Charles Baudelaire (Paris: Michel Lévy, 1869).
  • Oeuvres posthumes et correspondances inédites (Paris: Quantin, 1887).
  • Oeuvres posthumes (Paris: Mercure de France, 1908).
  • Mon coeur mis à nu et Fusées; journaux intimes (Paris: A. Blaizot, 1909).
  • Carnet, edited by Féli Gautier (Paris: J. Chevrel, 1911).
  • A une courtisane; poème inédit de Charles Baudelaire, publié d'après le manuscrit original et orné de huit eaux fortes par Oreixama (Paris: J. Fort, 1925).
  • Amoenitates belgicae; épigrammes, edited by A. Poulet-Malassis (Paris: Editions Excelsior, 1925).
  • Eugène Delacroix (Paris: G. Crès & Cie, 1927); translated by Joseph Milton Bernstein as Eugene Delacroix, His Life and Work (New York: Lear, 1947).
  • Dessins de Baudelaire, edited by Jacques Crépet (Paris: Gallimard, 1927).
  • Baudelaire, documents iconographiques, edited by Pichois and François Ruchon (Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1960).
  • Album Baudelaire, edited by Pichois (Paris: Gallimard, 1974).
Collections and Editions
  • Oeuvres complètes, 19 volumes, edited by Jacques Crépet and Claude Pichois (Paris: Conrad, 1922-1953).
  • Little Poems in Prose, translated by Aleister Crowley (Paris: E. W. Titus, 1928).
  • Journaux intimes, Fusées, Mon coeur mis à nu, Carnet, edited by Crépet and Georges Blin (Paris: Corti, 1949).
  • Curiosités esthétiques; L'Art romantique (Paris: Garnier, 1966).
  • Petits poèmes en prose, edited by Robert Kopp (Paris: Corti, 1969).
  • Oeuvres complètes, edited by Pichois, 2 volumes (Paris: Gallimard, 1975-1977).
Editions in English
  • Les Fleurs du mal, Petits poèmes en prose, Les Paradis artificiels, translated by Arthur Symons (London: Casanova Society, 1925).
  • Baudelaire, Prose and Poetry, translated by Symons (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926).
  • Intimate Journals, translated by Christopher Isherwood (London: Blackman, 1930; New York: Random House, 1930).
  • Flowers of Evil, translated by George Dillon and Edna St. Vincent Millay (New York & London: Harper, 1936).
  • Paris Spleen, 1869, translated by Louise Varèse (New York: New Directions, 1947).
  • My Heart Laid Bare, and Other Prose Writings, translated by Norman Cameron, edited by Peter Quennell (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1950; New York: Vanguard, 1951)—comprises The Painter of Modern Life, The Poem of Hashish, Short Poems in Prose, Journals and Notebooks.
  • Baudelaire on Poe; Critical Papers, translated and edited by Lois Boe Hyslop and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. (State College, Pa.: Bald Eagle Press, 1952).
  • The Mirror of Art, Critical Studies, translated by Jonathan Mayne (New York: Phaidon, 1955).
  • The Voyage and Other Versions of Poems by Baudelaire, translated by Robert Lowell (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1961).
  • Baudelaire as a Literary Critic, selected essays introduced and translated by Hyslop and Hyslop (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1964).
  • Art in Paris, 1845-1862. Salons and Other Exhibitions, translated and edited by Jonathan Mayne (London: Phaidon, 1965).
  • The Parisian Prowler: Le Spleen de Paris, translated by Edward Kaplan (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989).
  • Flowers of Evil and Other Works (Les Fleurs du mal et oeuvres choisies/Charles Baudelaire), edited and translated by Wallace Fowlie (New York: Dover, 1992).
  • The Flowers of Evil/Charles Baudelaire, translated by James McGowan (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).
TRANSLATIONS
  • Edgar Allan Poe, Histoires extraordinaires (Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1856).
  • Poe, Nouvelles Histoires extraordinaires (Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1856).
  • Poe, Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym (Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1858).
  • Poe, Eureka (Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1863).
  • Poe, Histoires grotesques et sérieuses (Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1865).
LETTERS
  • Charles Baudelaire: Souvenirs-correspondance bibliographie suivie de pièces inédites, edited by Charles Cousin (Paris: Chez René, 1872).
  • Oeuvres posthumes et correspondances inédites, edited by Eugène Crépet (Paris: Quantin, 1887).
  • Lettres (1841-1866) (Paris: Mercure de France, 1906).
  • Dernières lettres inédites à sa mère, edited by Jacques Crépet (Paris: Editions Excelsior, 1926).
  • The Letters of Baudelaire, translated by Arthur Symons (New York: A. & C. Boni, 1926).
  • Correspondance générale, edited by Jacques Crépet (Paris: L. Conard, 1947-1953).
  • Baudelaire: A Self-portrait, translated and edited by Lois Boe Hyslop and Francis E. Hyslop Jr. (London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1957).
  • Correspondance, 2 volumes, edited by Claude Pichois and Jean Ziegler (Paris: Gallimard, 1973)—comprises volume 1, 1832-1860; volume 2, 1860-1866.