Juvenilia
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈd͡ʒuːvɪˈniːljə/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Juvenilia is a noun meaning (chiefly literature) Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.
Meaning
(chiefly literature) Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.
Example Sentences
Lewis’s juvenilia is childlike, and the way it has been handled is childish.
The last line, adapted from Coleridge, reminds us that we are never such kleptomaniacs as in our juvenilia.
Though there is a large body of criticism on Brontë’s novels, there are very few interpretations of the juvenilia, […]
...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,.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include youthtime, subliterature, cinquecentist, idyllicism, puerility, poetastry.
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