What was Samuel Johnson’s first published work?

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Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig. — Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson, oil on canvas by Sir Joshua Reynolds, c. 1756; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Samuel Johnson’s first published work was a translation of Alexander Pope’s poem "Messiah" into Latin. This translation appeared in 1731 in the collection A Miscellany of Poems, which also featured the work of other students from Oxford.1