{{short description|Educator, diplomat, writer}} {{Primary sources|date=December 2020}} '''Carl Bode''' (March 14 1911 – January 5 1993) was an author, poet, professor of English and American Studies at the University of Maryland, and officer of several literary and cultural organizations.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Collection: Carl Bode papers {{!}} Archival Collections|url=https://archives.lib.umd.edu/repositories/2/resources/32|access-date=2020-06-26|website=archives.lib.umd.edu}}</ref> He wrote and edited over 30 books, including ''The American Lyceum'', ''Antebellum Culture'', ''Mencken,'' the first full biography to be published after H.L. Mencken's death, as well as ''Maryland'', a 350-year history of the state. Bode edited ''The Collective Poems of Henry Thoreau,'' ''The Best of Thoreau's Journals'', and ''The Portable Emerson'' among others.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Carl Bode|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/n50010049/carl-bode/|access-date=2020-06-26|website=Library of Congress}}</ref>
He was the founder of the American Studies Association and the Mencken Society, and was president of the Popular Culture Association and the Thoreau Society of America.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Carl Bode {{!}} Penguin Random House|url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/64743/carl-bode|access-date=2020-06-26|website=PenguinRandomhouse.com|language=en-US}}</ref> He was awarded fellowships both by the Guggenheim and Ford Foundations and was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature while serving as cultural attaché at the American Embassy in London. He also taught at the University of Maryland for 40 years.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Carl Bode (1911-1993) - DC Poetry: A Splendid Wake|url=https://wikis.library.gwu.edu/dcpoetry/index.php/Carl_Bode_(1911-1993)|access-date=2020-06-26|website=wikis.library.gwu.edu|archive-date=2021-03-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210302170100/https://wikis.library.gwu.edu/dcpoetry/index.php/Carl_Bode_(1911-1993)|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== List of published works ==
=== Edited works ===
* ''Collected Poems of Henry Thoreau'' (1943) * ''The Best of Thoreau’s Journals'' * co-edited ''The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau'' * ''The Portable Emerson (1981)'', in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley *''The Editor, the Bluenose, and the Prostitute: H.L. Mencken's History of the "Hatrack" Censorship Case''. Niwot, Colorado: Roberts, Rinehart, Inc. 1988.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rosenberg|first=Norman|date=1991-01-01|title=Book Review: The Editor, the Bluenose, and the Prostitute: H.L. Mencken's History of the "Hatrack" Censorship Case. Edited by Carl Bode.|url=https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/concomm/819|journal=Constitutional Commentary}}</ref>
=== Poetry, biographies, and other written works ===
* ''The American Lyceum'' * ''Antebellum Culture'' * ''Mencken'' (1969) * ''Maryland: A Bicentennial History'' (1978) * ''The Anatomy of American Popular Culture'' (1983) * ''The Sacred Seasons'' (1975) * ''Practical Magic'' (1981) * ''The Man Behind You''
== External links == * [https://archives.lib.umd.edu/repositories/2/resources/32 Carl Bode papers] at the University of Maryland Libraries * The New York Times [https://web.archive.org/web/20150112090840/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/07/arts/dr-carl-bode-81-a-scholar-of-american-culture.html Carl Bode]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lambert |first=Bruce |date=January 7, 1993 |title=Dr. Carl Bode, 81, a Scholar of American Culture |work=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/07/arts/dr-carl-bode-81-a-scholar-of-american-culture.html |access-date=January 12, 2015 |archive-date=January 12, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112090840/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/07/arts/dr-carl-bode-81-a-scholar-of-american-culture.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20150112090840/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/07/arts/dr-carl-bode-81-a-scholar-of-american-culture.html obituary]
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