Public-domain audiobook
Hymn to Beauty (audiobook)
Free audiobook of Hymn to Beauty by Charles Baudelaire: 20 min in 8 sections, read by LibriVox volunteers.
20 minrunning time
8sections
≈ 3,000words
About this recording
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Hymn to Beauty by Charles Baudelaire. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 6, 2026. ------ Charles-Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics, and are based on observations of real life. - Summary by Wikipedia
Sources & data
- From the LibriVox catalogue. Word count estimated at 9,300 words per hour of narration.