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Albert Durrant Watson

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Nationality
  
Canadian

Died
  
1926, Toronto, Canada

Role
  
Poet

Name
  
Albert Watson

Occupation
  
Physician, poet


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Born
  
January 8, 1859 (
1859-01-08
)
Dixie, Canada West

Alma mater
  
Victoria University Edinburgh University

Education
  
Victoria University, Toronto

From 'Love And The Universe' (Albert Durrant Watson Poem)


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

Contents

Life

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

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

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. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
  • Albert Durrant Watson, Lorne Pierce, eds. (1923). Our Canadian literature: representative prose & verse. Ryerson Press. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
  • 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.
  • References

    Albert Durrant Watson Wikipedia