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juvenilia, n. pl.|dʒuːvɪˈnɪlɪə|
[L., neut. pl. of juvenilis juvenile a.]
Literary or artistic works produced in the author's youth (freq. as a title of such works collected). Also transf.
1622G. Wither (title) Ivvenilia: a collection of those poemes which were heretofore imprinted and written by George Wither. 1633Donne (title) Iuuenilia: or certaine paradoxes and problemes. 1693Dryden tr. Juvenal's Satires p. ix, His Juvenilia, or Verses written in his Youth. a1849H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) II. 265 Whatever effect these juvenilia may have produced at the time, they are quite worthless now. 1896in Tennyson Works 2 Juvenilia. 1929Sunday Dispatch 13 Jan. 10/5 Not that I belong to the school which would trace, in these innocent juvenilia of our nation, an anthropological or historical origin. 1952Brontë Soc. Trans. XII. 126 Prose and verse by Charlotte and Branwell [in M. Christian's ‘Census of Brontë Manuscripts in the United States’] classified as unpublished are mostly in the Juvenilia category. 1971W. Gérin in C. Brontë Five Novelettes 7 Charlotte Brontë wrote the following novelettes between the years 1836 and 1839, from the time when she had just turned twenty until her twenty-third year. They cannot, therefore, be technically reckoned as belonging to her juvenilia. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Nov. 1453/1 It is always difficult to judge the literary merit of juvenilia. |