Whitsun - in Literature

In Literature

• The Whitsun Weddings is a poem and the title of a collection by Philip Larkin;
• Whitsun, a poem by Sylvia Plath;
• "Whitsunday in Kirchstetten" is a poem by W. H. Auden from his collection About the House.
• Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory has the Knights of the Round Table witness a divine vision of the Holy Grail on a Whitsunday, prompting their quest to find its true location.
• In Shakespeare's Winter's_Tale, Act 4, Scene 4, Perdita imagines that she plays "as I have seen them do in Whitsun pastorals".
• Several chapters on Jeff Wheeler's Muirwood Trilogy revolve around Whitsunday and its significance and impact on Muirwood's inhabitants;