Platero and I, the most popular work by the great Spanish writer Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958), is a series of autobiographical prose poems about the wanderings in Andalusia of a poet and his donkey. This new, accurate English translation is drawn from the complete edition published in 1917. This is the only dual-language edition of this classic of Spanish literature, with an excellent introduction and explanatory notes that will assist students in understanding and appreciating the work.