Romos Filiras: It is good and appropriate to remember people who left in their lives a stone on the altar of art and took the world one step forward in the future with the great work.
Romos Filiras was born in 1888 in Derveni, Corinth and died in Chaidari-Athens on September 9, 1942.
It was poet and journalist. He belongs to the circle of neo-romantic poets of the interwar period.
Ioannis Economopoulos, as was his real name. He was educated at home by his father, who was a teacher. In 1902 he settled with his family in Piraeus, where he completed his circular studies.
His first appearance in the literary field was made with a prose that was published in the children's magazine of Mytilene "Haravgi".
From 1903, still a student of the High School, he began to collaborate with newspapers and magazines of the time. Numas, Children's physique, Citadel, Progress, New Greece, Country, where he published poems, vignettes and book presentations.
In the same year he adopted the literary pseudonym Romos Filiras for the poems, which he published in the literary magazine Numas.
In 1911 he published his first poetry collection entitled, Wheel in foam.
In 1916 he was first appointed archivist and then clerk in the Army Judiciary and rose to the rank of lieutenant.
During the Balkan Wars He fought in Macedonia and Epirus, where he suffered from frostbite. He was discharged in 1924, due to an incurable venereal disease (macular spirochete).
In his poetry, his intention to use new lyrical forms as well as verbal innovations is evident, while musicality and romanticism are not lacking. Often in his poems there is a sense of bitterness and frustration, of frustrated expectations, which stems from the pretended joy of temporary pleasures, which is perceived as waste and inner deprivation.
This disharmonious feeling is expressed, not with the elevated tone of the poets who were influenced by K. Palamas, but with everyday vocabulary, which sometimes deviates from the established poetic language.
In addition to his military involvement, he collaborated with literary magazines, I lead,,New Home, Cycle and Start, Published a total of five poetry collections:
Returns 1912-1918-1919
The coming 1920
Hourglass 1921
Pierrot 1922
Sacrifice 1923
and prose, The theatrical of life 1916.
