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juvenilia /ˌdʒuːvəˈnɪlɪə /plural nounWorks produced by an author or artist while still young: from the juvenilia onward, certain themes were prominent five of Eliot’s published juvenilia...- London's first chapter on the Brontes' juvenilia critiques the literary-critical construction of an individual, solitary author out of collaborative, adolescent writing practices.
- But a remark by Evelyn Waugh about the juvenilia of Ronald Knox comes to mind, that only by ‘shameless and inept experiments’ does any writer achieve ‘mastery of a very difficult language’.
- The appendix to the Complete Poems prints the two pieces of juvenilia that were published in Bunting's youth, both remarkably conventional given that Bunting knew and already admired Whitman.
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin, neuter plural of juvenilis (see juvenile). Rhymesbougainvillea, Brasília, cilia, conciliar, familiar, haemophilia (US hemophilia), Hillier, memorabilia, paedophilia (US pedophilia), sedilia |