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Works

• Salon de 1845, 1845
• Salon de 1846, 1846
• La Fanfarlo, 1847
• Les Fleurs du mal, 1857
• Les paradis artificiels, 1860
• Réflexions sur Quelques-uns de mes Contemporains, 1861
• Le Peintre de la Vie Moderne, 1863
• Curiosités Esthétiques, 1868
• L'art romantique, 1868
• Le Spleen de Paris, 1869
• Oeuvres Posthumes et Correspondance Générale, 1887–1907
• Fusées, 1897
• Mon Coeur Mis à Nu, 1897
• Oeuvres Complètes, 1922–53 (19 vols.)
• Mirror of Art, 1955
• The Essence of Laughter, 1956
• Curiosités Esthétiques, 1962
• The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays, 1964
• Baudelaire as a Literary Critic, 1964
• Arts in Paris 1845–1862, 1965
• Selected Writings on Art and Artist, 1972
• Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire, 1986
• Twenty Prose Poems, 1988
• Critique d'art; Critique musicale, 1992

Discography

• French composer Claude Debussy set five poems from Baudelaire into music in 1890: Le Balcon, Harmonie du soir, Le Jet d'eau, Recueillement and La mort des amants.
• French singer-songwriter Léo Ferré devoted himself to set Baudelaire's poetry into music in three albums: Les Fleurs du mal in 1957 (12 poems), Léo Ferré chante Baudelaire in 1967 (24 poems, including one from Le Spleen de Paris), and the posthumous Les Fleurs du mal (suite et fin) (21 poems), recorded in 1977 but released in 2008.
• French singer David TMX recorded the poem "Lesbos" from The Flowers of Evil.
• French metal/shoegaze groups Alcest and Amesoeurs used his poetry for the lyrics of the tracks "Élévation" (on Le Secret) and "Recueillement" (on Amesoeurs), respectively. Celtic Frost used his poem Tristesses de la lune as a lyrics for song on album Into the Pandemonium.
• Israeli singer Maor Cohen's 2005 album, the Hebrew name of which translates to French as "Les Fleurs Du Mal", is a compilation of songs from Baudelaire's book of the same name. The texts were translated to Hebrew by Israeli poet Dori Manor, while the music was composed by Cohen himself.
• Italian singer Franco Battiato set Invitation au voyage to music as Invito Al Viaggio on his 1999 album Fleurs (Esempi Affini Di Scritture E Simili).
• American composer Gerard Pape set Tristesses de la lune/Sorrows of the Moon from Fleurs du Mal for voice and electronic tape.
• Russian heavy metal band Black Obelisk used Russian translations of several Baudelaire poems as lyrics for their songs.