Hymn to Beauty
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Hymn to Beauty by Charles Baudelaire.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 6, 2026.
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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.
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| Hymn to Beauty - read by ACZ | 2:39 | Read by Aaron Zimmerman | |
| Hymn to Beauty - read by BK | 2:41 | Read by Bruce Kachuk | |
| Hymn to Beauty - read by BWC | 2:16 | Read by Beeswaxcandle | |
| Hymn to Beauty - read by LCW | 2:35 | Read by Larry Wilson | |
| Hymn to Beauty - read by PFS | 2:34 | Read by Phil Schempf | |
| Hymn to Beauty - read by R | 2:39 | Read by Rapunzelina | |
| Hymn to Beauty - read by SLM | 2:07 | Read by Stacey Malcolm | |
| Hymn to Beauty - read by TD | 3:12 | Read by Theo Douglas |