consort (countable and uncountable, plural consorts) The spouse of a monarch. A husband, wife, companion or partner. Dryden He single chose to live, and shunned to wed, / Well pleased to want a consort of his bed.
The movie was loosely based on the screenwriter's life. Dead Poets Society was written by Tom Schulman, who also wrote Honey, I Shrunk The Kids and What About Bob? It was the first screenplay he sold to Hollywood, though not the first one he wroteâin fact, Schulman wrote four scripts before Dead Poets Society.
In 1922, Markham's poem Lincoln, the Man of the People was selected from 250 entries to be read at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial. The author himself read the poem. Of it, Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton said, Edwin Markham's Lincoln is the greatest poem ever written on the immortal martyr, and the greatest that ever will be written. Later that year, Markham was filmed reciting the poem by Lee De Forest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process.