Webb spent the rest of his life in and out of New South Wales and Victorian psychiatric facilities. In 1964, Angus & Robertson published his fifth collection "The Ghost of the Cock", then in 1969 released his well-known "Collected Poems", with an unforgettable foreword by Sir Herbert Read (the eminent leading British critic in his day) that compared Webb's work on equal footing with that of major European and American poets Pasternak, Lowell, Rilke and Eliot. After the publication of "The Ghost of the Cock" in 1964, Webb wrote eight substantial poems (two of which appear in "Collected Poems" while the rest can be found in the recent selection of his work in the online Australian literary journal "Thylazine"). In 1967, Webb was praised by Read as "one of the greatest poets of our time . . . one of the most unjustly neglected poets of the century," and Webb has since attracted substantial critical acclaim for his profound vision, his unique spiritual quest to discover the heart of things.