Albert Durrant Watson

Albert D. Watson
Born (1859-01-08)January 8, 1859
Dixie, Canada West
Died May 3, 1926(1926-05-03) (aged 67)
Toronto, Ontario
Nationality Canadian
Alma mater
Occupation Physician, poet

Albert Durrant Watson (January 8, 1859 – May 3, 1926) was a Canadian poet, and physician.

Life

He graduated from Victoria University, and Edinburgh University. He practiced medicine for more than forty years in the city of Toronto.[1][2]

He held a series of seances from 1918 to 1920 by medium Louis Benjamin.[2]

Works

  • "The Norse Discovery of America", Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 1923, v17, pp257.

Poetry

  • "A Hymn for Canada", Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • The wing of the wild bird and other poems. William Briggs. 1908.
  • Love and the universe: The immortals, and other poems... Macmillan. 1913.
  • 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

  • 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

  • The twentieth plane: a psychic revelation reported by Albert Durrant Watson. G. W. Jacobs & company. 1919.
  • 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.
  • 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.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Garvin, John William, ed. (1916). "Albert D. Watson". Canadian Poets. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart. pp. 227–236.
  2. 1 2 Barr, Debra; Meyer zu Erpen, Walter (2005). "Watson, Albert Durrant". In Cook, Ramsay; Bélanger, Réal. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. XV (1921–1930) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  3. ↑ "Hyslop's Society Scooped By Canada". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
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