Essays on Milton (incomplete) an essay collection by Julian Darius CONTENTS Invocation to the Poetic Journey to Epic: "Hail native Language" (in "At a Vacation Exercise") "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity," 25 December 1629 "The unpolluted temple of the mind": "the happy trial" not of Chastity but of "the arms of Chastity" in Milton's Ludlow Castle Mask The Rigged Debate in Hell The Intrusion of Allegory: Sin, Death, and Perpetual Incestuous Rape by Animals The Second Invocation: "Hail holy Light"