juvenilia
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See also: Juvenília
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin iuvenīlia, neuter plural of iuvenīlis (“of or pertaining to youth”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
juvenilia pl (plural only)
- (chiefly literature, only in the plural) 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.
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Adjective[edit]
juvenīlia