Highway 61 Revisited resonates because of its enduring emotional appeal. Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal. In Like a Rolling Stone, his gleeful excoriation of Miss Lonely (Edie Sedgwick? Joan Baez? a composite type?) fuses with the evocation of a hip new zeitgeist to produce a veritable anthem. In Ballad of a Thin Man, the younger generation's confusion...