Yes, that is what I suggest. Such archives are important for that reason. It especially matters to the peer review process of articles etc. That's why a high internet presence matters little if your work has not been "validated" by academic study based on an archival presence, and other validation criteria.
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Michael Peverett wrote:
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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