...John Halperin Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 Unengaged Laughter: Jane Austen s Juvenilia John Halperin Jane Austen s Juvenilia, of which about 90,000 words written in three slim quarto notebooks between 1787 and 1793 survive, are mostly farcical and satirical in nature. Some...

... and the crowded epithets, let us be even technically lenient with his juvenilia. His senilia deserve less kindness. In youth, it was necessary that he write himself up: in age, it was decidedly not necessary that he write himself down. Let us focus our attention on a few examples of his metrical skill; on some...

... for the church, as Grecians were expected Elia and The Indicator 299 to do. Hunt seems to have outgrown the stammering, but Lamb did not outgrow it. The first substantial evidence of acquaintance between the families of Hunt and Lamb came with the publication of Hunt s Juvenilia (1801). Among the many...

... and, more important, reflects the slow plunge into European culture by one of the few modern American novelists who treasure the rich continuity of experience. Despite the narrow range of these almost casual letters, they are not juvenilia fit only for the biographer s mill. They will please the faithful...

... and, more important, reflects the slow plunge into European culture by one of the few modern American novelists who treasure the rich continuity of experience. Despite the narrow range of these almost casual letters, they are not juvenilia fit only for the biographer s mill. They will please the faithful...

... to show what he meant in Meredith s life. The Poems are dismissed as no more than competent and prom­ ising juvenilia, showing no sign of the later style, though every kind of poem Meredith was afterward to write is represented in the volume, and although it contained the early version of Love...

... that final accolade of devotion, an elaborate parody of Eliot s principal verse. Faulkner, after a reprieve of neglect and misreading in the 1930 s, is now submerged beneath a massive weight of commentators and interpreters and attendants; his gene­ alogy, his private life, his juvenilia, his wastebasket...

... was sufficiently impressed by Huxley s comparative juvenilia to note in the first chapter of Sodome et Gommorrhe his place preponderate dans le monde de la litterature anglaise. Such accolades are rare. In Huxley s case they were merited by an ex­ ceptional range of intellect as well as by unusual felicities...

... that frequently go hand in hand with a prolific crop of juvenilia. Moscow, not London, eventually opened the doors. November, 1907, was even more foggy and disagreeable than most English autumns. Sick of an inadequate fire in a dark library, he went out for a walk and at the end of the day took refuge...

... attachment to Dryden by attacking Elkanah Settle. The juvenilia which Pope himself printed do not in the form in which we have them give us much idea of the qualities of these poems as Pope first wrote them; for they were very much cor­ rected before they were printed, and manuscript versions of them 246...

... edition Lady Susan, the unfinished Watsons, the letters and the highly interesting, recently published volume, Love and Freindship. The juvenilia of a great writer are seldom if ever without interest, for they may be at once a product and a portent. They may point back to literary ancestry; they may point...

... attention again to the relative sophistica­ tion of Miss Austen s little-known juvenilia. An occasional comment re­ flects the lack of perspective resulting from long devotion to a subject; for instance, that one novel ends in deep tragedy (p. 20). Certain summary sections (pp. 63, no) might note...