Literature and Music
- "Excelsior" (Longfellow), a 1841 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Longfellow's poem, set to music as a duet for tenor and baritone by Michael William Balfe
- Excelsior (Macedonski), a book of poems by Alexandru Macedonski
- "Excelsior" (short story), a 1948 short story by P. G. Wodehouse
- "Excelsior" (Whitman), a poem by Walt Whitman
- Excélsior, a newspaper published in Mexico City
- Daily Excelsior, a newspaper published in Jammu and Kashmir
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