Milk is based on the life of an animal rights activist.
Louis L. Martz -LRB- 1913-2001 -RRB- was Sterling Professor of English at Yale University from 1971 , retiring in 1984 .. Sterling Professor. Sterling Professor. Yale University. Yale University. From 1972 to 1978 he was also acting director of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library .. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. From 1963 to 1997 Martz chaired the `` Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More '' , himself editing volume 12 -LRB- 1976 -RRB- , the Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation .. Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More. Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More. Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation. Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation. His other scholarly publications include The Poetry of Meditation  : A Study in English Religious Literature of the Seventeenth Century -LRB- 1954 -RRB- , Collected Poems , 1912 -- 1944 by H.D. -LRB- 1983 -RRB- , and Many Gods and Many Voices  : The Role of the Prophet in English and American Modernism -LRB- 1998 -RRB- .