Word: juvenilia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite occasional lapses into quiescence, the species juvenilia continues to justify its Wordsworthian epithet of "mighty prophets, seer blest". Vibrations of exotic metre have scarcely died away in a certain quarter of Brooklyn when the evangelical eloquence of twelve year old Uldine Utley presages a great western spiritual movement. For Uldine, according to her biographer in the American Magazine, is the California child that has moved ten thousand men to lead better lives...