 Following this, Geoffrey Yarlott states, "though disproportionate in qualities of thought and feeling (and one of the less successful therefore of the major 'annus mirabilis' poems), [Fears in Solitude] exemplifies the problems Coleridge had to wrestle with in assimilating didacticism to the requirements of poetic organization." Richard Holmes claims Fears in Solitude as "one of the most difficult of [Coleridge's] Conversation Poems". The ending, to Holmes, is "evoked with the magic, pastoral power of a Samuel Palmer picture".
