Even when a work of art contains elements which can be
surely identified as biographical, these elements will be so re-
arranged and transformed in a work that they lose all their
specifically personal meaning and become simply concrete human
material, integral elements of a work. Ramon Fernandez has
argued this very convincingly in connection with Stendhal.
G. W. Meyer has shown how much the professedly autobio-
graphical Prelude differs from Wordsworth's actual life during
the process the poem purports to describe. s