Franz Baermann Steiner is increasingly being recognized as one of the leading poets and anthropologists of the mid-twentieth century. The present volume collects the papers delivered at a Symposium held at the Institute of Germanic Studies (University of London) to commemorate the fiftieth anniversay of Steiner’s birth. The symposium brought together all the major scholars working on Steiner, as well as several younger ones. The papers take a fresh look at Steiner’s life and work, locating him more precisely against his Prague background and the English émigré community, whilst at the same time placing him in the context of mid-twentieth century culture, and specifically in his relation to the Shoah. The volume’s foundational readings of his literary and anthropological works enable a rich and multi-facetted view to emerge of a writer who, as an anthropologist, belonged to the English-speaking world, but as a poet formed part of the German literary tradition.