About Alvin Lee Alvin A. Lee is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at McMaster University, a research associate at Victoria College in the University of Toronto, and general editor of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye. Books by Alvin Lee Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon 'Beowulf' as Metaphor by (author) Alvin Lee Gold-Hall and Earth-Dragon 'Beowulf' as Metaphor by (author) Alvin Lee