Samuel Johnson was an important English poet mainly known for his essays, poems, analysis, literary critics, among others. Indeed, Samuel Johnson published multiple words during the 18th century, including a compilation of word the English language or "A Dictionary of the English Language" published in 1755; a book that included the biographies of multiple poets "The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets" or "The Lives of the English Poets" published in 1780and allegorical story called "The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia" or "Rasselas" published in 1759. Therefore, the work that was not published by Johnson was "The Vicar of Wakefield" as this was a novel published in 1766 and written by an Irish writer called Oliver Goldsmith.
This is because the other examples could have various meanings to various people while an Owl has an easily represented denotative meaning, it being an animal.
