Albert Durrant Watson (January 8, 1859 – May 3, 1926) was a Canadian poet, and physician.
Albert D. Watson | |
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| Born | January 8, 1859 |
| Died | May 3, 1926 (aged 67) Toronto, Ontario |
| Nationality | Canadian |
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| Occupation(s) | Physician, poet |
Life
editHe graduated from Victoria University, and Edinburgh University. He practiced medicine for more than forty years in the city of Toronto.[1][2]
Watson was born in a family of a reformer in politics and a Methodist in religion.[3] He held a series of seances from 1918 to 1920 by medium Louis Benjamin.[2] He joined the Bahá'í Faith in 1920, was active in the Toronto community, and publishing poems related to the religion in the 1920s in and beyond Bahá'í publications.[4]
Works
edit- "The Norse Discovery of America", Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 1923, v17, pp257.
Poetry
edit- "A Hymn for Canada", Canadian Medical Association Journal
- The wing of the wild bird and other poems. William Briggs. 1908.
Albert Durrant Watson.
- Love and the universe: The immortals, and other poems... Macmillan. 1913. ISBN 9780665776694.
- Heart Of The Hills: Poems. 1917. reprint. Kessinger Publishing, LLC. 2007. ISBN 978-0-548-73411-7.
- Dream of God: A Poem (1922)
- Woman: a poem. Ryerson Press. 1923.
- Poetical works. Ryerson Press. 1924.
Anthologies
edit- Bliss Carman; Lorne Pierce, eds. (1954). Canadian poetry in English. Ryerson Press.
- Albert Durrant Watson; Lorne Pierce, eds. (1923). Our Canadian literature: representative prose & verse. Ryerson Press.
Psychic
edit- The twentieth plane: a psychic revelation reported by Albert Durrant Watson. G. W. Jacobs & company. 1919.
Albert Durrant Watson.
- Albert Durrant Watson, Louis Benjamin (1920). Birth through death, the ethics of the twentieth plane: a revelation received through the psychic consciousness of Louis Benjamin. The James A. McCann company.
Albert Durrant Watson.
- Dr. Albert Durrant Watson, a prominent Canadian psychic investigator, claimed to be the first to receive a message from Dr. James H. Hyslop who died on June 17, 1920, in Upper Montclaire, New Jersey, "Hyslop's Society Scooped By Canada" The New York Times, Tuesday, June 22, 1920.[5]
References
edit- ^ Garvin, John William, ed. (1916). "Albert D. Watson". Canadian Poets. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart. pp. 227–236.
- ^ a b Barr, Debra; Meyer zu Erpen, Walter (2005). "Watson, Albert Durrant". In Cook, Ramsay; Bélanger, Réal (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. XV (1921–1930) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
- ^ Debra Barr and Walter Meyer zu Erpen. "WATSON, ALBERT DURRANT".
- ^ Will C. van den Hoonaard (30 October 2010). The Origins of the Bahá'í Community of Canada, 1898-1948. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. pp. 101–3. ISBN 978-1-55458-706-3. OCLC 757045489.
- ^ "Hyslop's Society Scooped By Canada". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 March 2015.