The History of Western Philosophy in 100 Haikus

HarisVlavianos was born in Rome in 1957. He studied Economics and Philosophy at the University of Bristol (B.Sc) and Politics, History and International Relations (M.Phil, D.Phil) at the University of Oxford (Trinity College). He has published ten collections of poetry in Greek, including Vacation in Reality (2009), which won the prestigious Diavazo Poetry Prize and was runner-up for the National Poetry Prize. He has translated in book form the works of well-known writers such as Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Michael Longley, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, Carlo Goldoni, William Blake, Zbigniew Herbert, Fernando Pessoa and e. e. cummings. His poetry has been translated in several languages. He is the editor of the influential literary journal Poetics. For his contribution in promoting Italian literature and culture in Greece, the President of the Italian Republic bestowed upon him in February 2005 the title of “Cavaliere”.