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;
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