Notes from an address by John Anderson titled 'The Nature of poetry', given to the Literary Society, University of Sydney, in 1939 and published in Art and Reality. This text transcribed as part of the University of Sydney's Australian Digital Collections between 1997-2010, and format shifted to PDF in 2021-22. All Anderson resources in this collection were created in accordance with the terms of the Alexander Anderson bequest and are presented here for private research and study only. They form part of the overall publication project initiated by the bequest and are held in copyright."