Winter Queen

(The) Winter Queen may refer to:

  • Elizabeth of Bohemia, also known as Elizabeth Stuart, queen 1619-1620 in Bohemia; this includes several books written about this person having "The Winter Queen" as (main part of) the title
  • The Winter Queen (novel), a novel by Boris Akunin, original title Азазель (Azazel), from the Erast Fandorin series

Famous quotes containing the words winter and/or queen:

    Every poem of value must have a residue [of language].... It cannot be exhausted because our lives are not long enough to do so. Indeed, in the greatest poetry, the residue may seem to increase as our experience increases—that is, as we become more sensitive to the particular ignitions in its language. We return to a poem not because of its symbolic [or sociological] value, but because of the waste, or subversion, or difficulty, or consolation of its provision.
    William Logan, U.S. educator. “Condition of the Individual Talent,” The Sewanee Review, p. 93, Winter 1994.

    We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it.
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)