...ccepted in 1832. His young wife had died of consumption in the same year. He now sailed for Italy, France, and England, a memorable journey which gave him an acquaintance with Landor, Wordsworth, Coleridge , and Carlyle, but which was even more significant in sending him, as he says, back to himself, to the resources of his own nature. When shows break up, wrote Whitman afterward, what but oneself is...