Albert Durrant Watson

Albert D. Watson
Born(1859-01-08)January 8, 1859
Dixie, Canada West
DiedMay 3, 1926(1926-05-03) (aged 67)
Toronto, Ontario
Education
OccupationsPhysician, 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.

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

Poetry

Anthologies

Psychic

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 (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. XV (1921–1930) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  3. ↑ Debra Barr and Walter Meyer zu Erpen. "WATSON, ALBERT DURRANT".
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ From THE IMMORTALS in Love and the universe: The immortals, and other poems... p. 61.
  6. ↑ "Quote Origin: We Are Made of Star-Stuff".
  7. ↑ "Hyslop's Society Scooped By Canada". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 March 2015.