Crossword puzzle clue "stubborn hope poet"

"Stubborn Hope" poet

Leia's only hope, at the beginning of "A New Hope"

Poet Carson who wrote "To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope

"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!" poet

Poet who wrote "Hope springs eternal in the human breast"

Stubborn

Stubborn retort

Stubborn as ___