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.

Watson was born in a family of a reformer in politics and a Methodist in religion. He held a series of seances from 1918 to 1920 by medium Louis Benjamin. 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.

The earliest known published assertion that we are stardust ("our bodies are star-stuff") is in Watson's 1913 book.

Works

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

Poetry

  • . William Briggs. 1908. Albert Durrant Watson.
  • Macmillan. 1913. ISBN 9780665776694. {{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  • 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). . Ryerson Press.
  • Albert Durrant Watson; Lorne Pierce, eds. (1923). . Ryerson Press.

Psychic

  • . G. W. Jacobs & company. 1919. Albert Durrant Watson.
  • Albert Durrant Watson, Louis Benjamin (1920). . 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.

External links

  • Media related to Albert Durrant Watson at Wikimedia Commons
  • Works by or about Albert Durrant Watson at Wikisource