In the wrong club

Christopher Bray reviews Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence, by Lee Siegel, at The Spectator.

"Indeed, argues Lee Siegel in his brief biographical study of the most verbal Marx Brother, Groucho’s ‘greatest regret in life … was that he had become an entertainer rather than a literary man’. How else to explain that excruciating evening in June 1964 when Groucho and his wife dined at the home of Mr and Mrs T. S. Eliot and Groucho thought to lecture Eliot on King Lear?"

See works by Eliot, Dante, and Tradition and the Individual Talent, in Gateway to the Great Books (10 Vol., 1963) volume 5, and The Waste Land, in Great Books of the Western World (second edition, 1990) volume 60