juvenilia

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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.
    • 1693, John Dryden, A Discourse on the Origin and Progress of Satire‎:
      ...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:
      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,”‎, 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:
      The last line, adapted from Coleridge, reminds us that we are never such kleptomaniacs as in our juvenilia.

Further reading

Latin

Adjective

juvenīlia

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of juvenīlis
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