The publication of Wings of the Morning (1938) established Vivian Virtue (1922-98) as one of the principal poets of Jamaica. In 1950 he was awarded the Constance Hollar Memorial Medal, and in 1960 he was awarded the Musgrave Silver Medal for poetry by the institute of Jamaica. In 1961 Virtue retired to London, and he contributed poems to over twenty-five journals as well as to anthologies of Caribbean, Negro, and contemporary British poetry. Virtue’s early ...
