John Milton

English poet, referenced in Charlie Munger — Harvard School Commencement Speech via Samuel Johnson’s quip about Milton’s epic Paradise Lost — “No one ever wished it longer” — which Munger borrows to set up his own remarks.

Context: John Milton (1608–1674) was an English poet and intellectual best known for the epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). He was also a polemicist and civil servant during the English Commonwealth.

Where this appears

• Charlie Munger — Harvard School Commencement Speech — Munger quotes Samuel Johnson’s joke about the length of Milton’s Paradise Lost.