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Definitions for juvenilia
- works, especially writings, produced in one's youth: His juvenilia were more successful than his mature writings.
- literary or artistic productions suitable or designed for the young: publishers of juvenilia.
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Citations for juvenilia
He showed us a majestic cupboard. “When I'm dead, remember this contains all myjuvenilia, the poems I wrote when I was sixteen, the sketches for sagas in six volumes made at eighteen, and so on …”
Young diarists are often thusly spirited; and juvenilia is worth keeping and consulting for its honesty and its exuberance as much as for its historical usefulness.
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