 After "Chloridia" in 1631, Jones's contentious, quarter-century-long masquing collaboration with Ben Jonson came to an end; in their long-running contest of wills and egos, Jones had won and Jonson had lost.With Aurelian Townshend's 1632 masques, "Albion's Triumph" and "Tempe Restored," Jones's influence became paramount.Jones, however, was not a literary man; the text of "Luminalia" has been called "in terms of poetry and literary ideas...the most incoherent and meaningless of the masques..."

Davenant's-or-Jones's story for the masque involves the Muses of classical Greek mythology.