Juvenilia are literary,[1] musical or artistic works produced by authors during their youth.
Written juvenilia, if published at all, usually appear as retrospective publications, some time after the author has become well known for later works.
Later, other notable poets, such as John Dryden and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, came to use the term for collections of their early poetry.
The stories and poems which novelist Jane Austen wrote before the age of eighteen are called her Juvenilia.
In these early pieces, Byron explores many of the themes that would shape his later works.