>By the way, it’s a "sad" reality that if ones work has not been archived, there is little chance of any future attention being given to it; such is the importance of such archives for academics to use for their research
That sent a bit of a chill down my spine. I am certainly not one of those who is indifferent to future attention. But my hopeful (too hopeful?) view is that if we leave enough of our writings on the internet then that takes care of the archive, and as this online material is publically available it isn't even limited to an academic audience, at least in principle.
Or do you intend an underlying subtext here, David: that unless academics have access to a body of "exclusive" material (stuff available to academics but NOT to the general public), there is little incentive to turn their attention to a poet's work, since the worthwhileness of the research project wouldn't be self-evident if they were only attending to what any old body could attend to. ...
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