Many critics have examined Bob Dylan's lyrics, especially those composed during the middle to late 1960s, in the contexts of their cultural influences; their relation to American folk, blues, and rock 'n' roll precedents; their discographical details and concert performances; their social-political relevance at the time; their wider philosophical themes; and/or their status for discussion as song-poems. Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation, instead, finds consistent traces of Dylan's ongoing autobiography in all of the songs discussed. Through this lens, the book evokes a -subterranean-...