'Keats describes his exact bodily position as he is writing, with his back to the fire, one foot on the rug and the other dangling over it. '

Keats describes his position as he is writing, with his back to the fire, one foot on the rug and the other dangling over it. He considered it would be a great delight to know the exact bodily position in which Shakespeare began ‘To be or not to be’.