This essay appears in the Summer 2014 issue of Modern Age. To subscribe now, go here.   Robert Penn Warren wrote three long narrative poems dealing with representative figures from American history: Thomas Jefferson in Brother to Dragons,1 the frontiersman and artist John James Audubon in Audubon: A Vision,2 and Young Joseph in Chief … Continue reading Past and Present in Robert Penn Warren’s[br] [em]Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce[/em]