juvenilia

See also: Juvenília

English

Etymology

From Latin iuvenīlia, neuter plural of iuvenīlis (“of or pertaining to youth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒuːvɪˈniːljə/

Noun

juvenilia pl (plural only)

1. (chiefly literature) Works produced during an artist's or author's youth. [from 1620s]
   • 1693, John Dryden, A Discourse on the Origin and Progress of Satire‎^[1]:

     ...rhyme was not his [Milton's] talent; he had neither the ease of doing it, nor the graces of it: which is manifest in his "Juvenilia" or verses written in his youth, where his rhyme is always constrained and forced,...

   • 1996, Kathryn Lindskoog, Light in the Shadowlands‎^[2]:

     Lewis’s juvenilia is childlike, and the way it has been handled is childish.

   • 1997, Tomoko Kuribayashi with Julie Tharp edd., quoting Susan Anne Carlson, “Incest and Rage in Charlotte Brontë’s Novelettes,”‎^[3], quoted in Creating Safe Space,:

     Though there is a large body of criticism on Brontë’s novels, there are very few interpretations of the juvenilia,  […]

   • 2003, James Fenton, The Strength of Poetry‎^[4]:

     The last line, adapted from Coleridge, reminds us that we are never such kleptomaniacs as in our juvenilia.

Further reading

• juvenilia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Adjective

juvenīlia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of juvenīlis