Albert Durrant Watson
| Albert D. Watson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 8, 1859 Dixie, Canada West |
| Died |
May 3, 1926 (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
- ↑ Garvin, John William, ed. (1916). "Albert D. Watson". Canadian Poets. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart. pp. 227–236.
- 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.
- ↑ "Hyslop's Society Scooped By Canada". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
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