The first volume of Hoggart's "Life and Times" described his working-class childhood in Leeds. This books opens in 1940, when he joned the Royal Artillery: wartime Britain is evoked, as is active service in North Africa and Italy. Back in England in 1946, Hoggart went on to teach in the extra-mural department of Hull University, travelling all over north-east England. He was also beginning to make his mark as a writer. His study of W.H. Auden was followed by The Uses of Literacy.
SORT OF CLOWNING
