Down with Cosmopolitanism

Gillian Darley

  • Stylistic Cold Wars: Betjeman v. Pevsner by Timothy Mowl
    Murray, 182 pp, £14.99, March 2000, ISBN 0 7195 5909 X

John Betjeman was the voice of postwar Englishness: at best, humorous, quirky and enthusiastic about some of the oddest things; at worst, parochial and smug shading into bitter. How ironic, in view of later developments and the argument of Timothy Mowl’s book, that Nikolaus Pevsner’s first visit to England, in 1930, was to research a new topic: Englishness in art.

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