Etymology

Noun

1. Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.

Quotations

• 1693, John Dryden, A Discourse on the Origin and Progress of Satire http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2615

  ...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 http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0880706953&id=p4Ct2oXIV1cC&pg=PA279&lpg=PA279&sig=FmJe9w-3M3oUVxERvt9MsVbWsXI

  Lewis’s juvenilia is childlike, and the way it has been handled is childish.

• 1997, Susan Anne Carlson, “Incest and Rage in Charlotte Brontë’s Novelettes,” in Creating Safe Space, Tomoko Kuribayashi and Julie Tharp edd. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0791435636&id=CdGYa3MP9hQC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&sig=LbohnhDBym_lTZJGEMWSe-lbTRs

  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 http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0199261393&id=dkcHDVjtFd4C&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&sig=4qdf2Ca51857ZQVZuM3yKAPQTc4

  The last line, adapted from Coleridge, reminds us that we are never such kleptomaniacs as in our juvenilia.