Juvenilia

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This page is about the literary term. For the album by Liz Phair, see Juvenilia (album) For the play by Elizabeth Kitsos-Kang, see Juvenilia (Elizabeth Kitsos-Kang)

Juvenilia is a term applied to literary or artistic works produced by an author during their youth.

The term was first recorded in 1622 in George Wither's poetry collection Ivvenilia. Later, other notable poets, such as John Dryden and Alfred Lord Tennyson came to use the term for collections of their early poetry.

In 1973, the Times Literary Supplement questioned the worth of juvenilia.

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